Part III
Motives for Tending to the Perfection of Virtue
In the First Part we have sought to remove the obstacles to solid virtue; in the Second we have pointed out the most effectual means for acquiring it; it remains to us to present in this Third Part the most pressing motives for labouring to perfect it in us.
These motives, or at least these which we esteem the principal, are what faith teaches us concerning the value of solid virtue: the fear of the evils incurred by those who neglect it: the hope of the graces obtained through it: the love of God, which exacts and merits that we be solidly virtuous: the happiness enjoyed by the truly perfect, and the crown granted to their perseverance.
At the close of this Third Part we shall show the connection that exists between it and the unitive way.
