The Nun's Prayer

[xoxoxoBruce]

I'm not sure it wasn't a 20th century construction labeled with a date and type face to give it gravis. The advice is probably timeless, although I haven't a clue how nuns, no less 17th century nuns, think.

Sometimes you read something penned in another age and there's just something so compellingly human about it.

You've said this before, a couple times. You seem to be surprised discovering people from different times and places were... people.
Sure, people in 17th century Scotland didn't worry about nuclear war or germs, they didn't know about them. But they had to worry about something because nobody has ever had a trouble free life. Jealousy, rage, fear, etc, aren't modern constructs.