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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 May 5, 2024.
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¶That for the same dedes dyuers men shall haue dyuers medes Caplm lxvi.
A Good man for the loue of god fasteth waketh. gooth on pilgrymage / and forsakyth all the likynges of ye wo¦rlde sothfastly in his herte wythouten feynynge / he shall haue his mede in the blysse of heuen / And an ypocrite for vaynglo¦ri of hymself dooth the same dedes / and receyueth his mede he¦re / Also a very precher of goddis worde fulfylled of charyte & of mekenes sent of god and of holy chirche receyued yf he pre¦che and teche goddis worde / he shall haue a specyall mede of god / that is the aureole for his prechyng / An ypocryte or an heretyke that hath noo mekenes ne charytee. ne arne sende of god nor yet of holy chyrche / yf they preche they haue her me∣de here / Also a good man in wordly state for loue of god makyth many chyrches / chapelles. abbeys. hospytals / and do∣oth many other good dedes of mercy / he shall haue his mede in the blysse of heuen / not for the dede in it selfe / but for ye go¦od will & the charyte yt he hath of ye yeft of god for to doo tho
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good dedes / An other man for vanytee of hymselfe and wor¦shyp and pleysyng of the worlde. and for his owne name do¦oth the same good dedes and hath his mede here / The cause is in all thyse that the tone hath charyte and the tother none whiche is one and whiche is other our lorde knowith and no¦ne but he /
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