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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http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A03935.0001.001
- Cite this Item
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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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NOw by thyse wordes thou maye yf thou wolte trowe hem / conceyue comforte for thy degree of liuynge / and also matere of mekenes / For though it be soo that thou shal¦te haue soo moche mede specyally for thy state of liuyng yf yu be saaf / Neuertheles it may be that there is many a wyf and many worldlyche woman shall be nerer god than thou / and more shall loue god and better knowe hym than thou shalt: for all thy state / And that oughte to be a shame for the but if thou be bisye for to gete loue and charite as fully and as per∣fytly as a worldely man or woman / For yf thou maye haue as moche charytee of the gyfte of god as he or she hathe that dwellyth stylle in worldly besynes / thou shalt haue as moche of the souereyn mede as he shal. And yu shal ouer that for that state whiche thou hast taken haue a singuler mede and a wor¦shyp whiche he shall not haue / Then̄e yf thou wyll doo well meke thyselfe and forgete thy state as it were ryght noughte For it is soth. by it selfe it is ryght noughte / And that thy de∣syre be and thy besynes for to destroye synnes / and for to gete charite & mekenes & other ghostly vertues / for therin lyeth al /