Six months after his first petition, the rule shall be again read for him, as before, that he may the better understand the obligations it imposes: if, at the end of these six months, he be still firm in his resolution, let the rule be read for him the third time four months after: if at the expiration of these four months he promise, after mature deliberation, to observe the whole law, and to obey his superiors in all things, let him be received into the Community,
