¶That a man shold not yeue him to ydlenes ne lightly leue the grace yt is yeuen hym of god / Caplm xl (Book 40)
After this whan yu arte escaped suche temptaciōs or elles our lord hath so kept y• as he dooth many by his mercy
Scala perfecc[i]onis
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- Title
- Scala perfecc[i]onis
- Author
- Hilton, Walter, d. 1396.
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- [Westminster :: Printed by Wynkyn de Worde,
- 1494]
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- Spiritual life -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
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"Scala perfecc[i]onis." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A03935.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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that thou hast not be taryed moche wyth none suche / Then̄e it is good to the that thou tourne not thy reste in to ydilnesse For there is many a man that takyth rest vpon hym to sone But thou shalt yt thou wylte begynne a newe game and a new traueyle / And that is for to entre wythin in to thyn ow¦ne soule by medytacion for to knowe what it is / And by the knowynge therof to come to the ghostly knowyng of god For saynt austyn sayth / * 1.1 By the knowyng of myselfe I shall hete the knowyng of god / I say not that it is nedeful to the & dette for to traueyle soo ne to none other mā / but he fele him styred by grace as he were callyd therto / For our lorde gyueth dyuers gyftes where soo he wyll / not to one man all / ne to al men one / saaf charyte whiche is comyn to all men / And ther¦fore yf a man or a woman haue receyued a yefte of god. as deuocyon in prayer / or in the passyon of cryste / Or ony other be it neuer soo lityll / leue it not to soone for none other / but yf he fele sothfastly a better / But holde that he hath and tra∣ueyle therin stably / euer desiryng a better whan god wyll gy¦ue it / Neuertheles yf that be wythdrawen somwhat and he seeth a better / and felith his hert styred therto / Thēne semith it a callynge of our lorde to the better / And thenne it is tyme that he folowe after for to gete it / and fulfylle it as swyftly as he maye /
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* 1.1
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