CHAPTER IV.
Of the Order of the Ministers, and other Brethren,
In the Name of the Lord : The Friars who are appointed Ministers and servants of the other brethren, wherever they may be, should place them in the Convents where they are to dwell, and should often visit and spiritually console and admonish them. But let all my other blessed brethren diligently obey their Superiors in those things which belong to the salvation of their souls, and are not contrary to our Form of life. Let them observe among themselves what Our Lord says : ‘Whatsoever you would that men should do to you, do you also to them,’ and what you do not wish done to you, do it not to others.
And let the Ministers and servants remember what Our Lord says : ‘I came not to be ministered unto, but to minister,’ and that to them is committed the care of the souls of their brethren, of whom, if any be lost through their fault and bad example, they will have to give an account to Our Lord Jesus Christ in the day of judgment.