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one or another person will still try to struggle in this world
for six or eight or ten years, but in less than five days he
will find himself condemned and will fall into the burning
furnace of Hell. A person is born in a good hour and well advised,
if when he is at his end he is engaged the service of Our Lord
and not in worldly and damnable laciviousness, as his Creator
gives him the understanding to do, and he has enough time
and space. For God will make him such a rich and beauteous
gift that he will have all good things for his use together with
the lasting joy of Paradise, given to us by the Creator and
Redeemer of the world, Who abounds with all pity and
compassion, and in Whom all good things and every virtue
have been, are, and always will be. This ends the book called
the Image of the World, which begins by speaking of
God and His inestimable works, and ends by speaking of Him
and His great power and position. For in all our beginnings
and in all our actions the name of God should be evoked
and called upon, as the One without whom all