Various sinners need various admonitions. 371 in one way the wise of this world, in another the dull ; in book one way the shameless, in another the modest; in one way^^^ the insolent, in another the retiring ; in one way the impa- tient, in another the patient ; in one way the well-wishing, in another the envious ; in one way the pure, in another the unclean ; in one way the healthy, in another the sick ; in one way those who fear the rod, and therefore live inno- cently, in another way those who have become so hardened in iniquity, as not to be corrected by the rod ; in one way those who are over silent, in another those who give them- selves to much talking ; in one way the timid, in another the bold ; in one way the sluggish, in another the hasty ; in one way the gentle, in another the angry ; in one way the humble, in another the haughty ; in one way the obstinate, in another the inconstant; in one way the gluttonous, in another the abstinent ; in one way those who mercifully give away their own, in another those who strive to seize others' goods; in one way those who neither seize the goods of others, nor yet give away their own ; and in another those who both give away their own goods which they have, and desist not from seizing those of others ; in one way those who are at variance, in another those who are reconciled ; in one way those who sow strifes, in another the peaceful. Those who do not rightly understand the words of the sacred Law must be admonished in one way, in another those who understand them rightly, but speak not of them humbly ; in one way those who though they are able to preach in a worthy manner, are afraid from excessive humility, in another those whom imperfection or age excludes from preaching, and whom yet precipitation urges on ; in one way those who prosper in their temporal desires, in another way those who desire indeed the things of the world, but who yet are wearied with the toil of adversity : in one way those who are bound in wedlock, in another way those who are free from the bonds of wedlock ; in one way those who have had experience of carnal coramixtion, in another way those who are ignorant of it ; in one way those who deplore the sins of their deeds, in another those who deplore the sins of their thoughts ; in one way those who lament their sins and yet do not abandon them, in another those who abandon