Scala perfecc[i]onis

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Title
Scala perfecc[i]onis
Author
Hilton, Walter, d. 1396.
Publication
[Westminster :: Printed by Wynkyn de Worde,
1494]
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Subject terms
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 May 6, 2024.

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¶What letteth a man to here and see Ihesu wythin him selfe / Caplm L.

NEuertheles I hope better that thou slepest ofter to him than he dooth to the / For he callyth the full ofte wyth hys swete pryue voys / & styreth thyn hert full stylly yt thou sholdest leue all other Ianglyng of al other vanitees in

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thy soule / and oonly take kepe of hym for to here hym speke Thus sayth Dauyd of our lorde / Audi filia & vide et inclina aurem tuam & obliuiscere populum tuum & domum patris tui / My doughter here and see and bowe thyne ere to me. and foryete the folke of thy worldly thoughtes. and the housse of thy flesshly and kyndely affeccyons / Loo here maye thou see how our lorde callyth the and all other whyche wyile herken to hym / what lettyth the then̄e that thou may nother see him ne here hym / Sothly there is soo moche dynne and cryenge in thyne herte of vayne thoughtes and flesshly desyres that yu maye nother here hym ne see hym / Therfore put awaye vn¦restfull dynne. and breke the loue of synne & of vanytee / and brynge in to thyne herte loue of vertues and full charyte. and thenne shalt thou here thy lorde speke to the /

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