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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LOo I haue tolde the a lityll as me thynketh. fyrste of cō¦templatyf lyf what it is / and sithen of the wayes why¦che by grace leden therto / noughte for I haue it in felyng and in werchyng as I haue it in sayeng / Neuerthelesse I wolde bi thyse wordes suche as they aren / fyrste styre myne owne necli¦gence for to doo better than I haue done / And also my purpo∣os is for to styre the or ony other man or woman that hathe taken the state of lyfe contemplatyf for to traueyle more be∣sily and more mekely in that maner of lyfe by suche symple wordes as god hath gyue me grace for to saye / And therfore yf ony worde be therin that styreth the or comforteth the mo¦re to the loue of god / thanke god. for it is his gyfte. and not of the worde / And yf it cōforte the not or elles thou takest it not redely / studie not tolonge theraboute but laye it besyde the tyll a nother tyme / and yeue the to thy prayer or to other ocu∣pacōn / Take it as it woll come and not all at ones / Also thi¦se wordes that I write take hem not to streytly but there that the thynkith by gode auysement that I speke to shortly eyther for lackynge of englysshe or wantyng of reason I praye the amende it oonly where nede is / Also thyse wordes that I wry¦te to the they longen not all to a man that hath actyf life / but to the or to ony other whiche hath the state of lyfe contempla¦tyf /
¶THE grace of our Lorde Ihesu Cryste be wyth the / AMEN