The original [and] sprynge of all sectes [and] orders by whome, wha or were they beganne. Translated out of hye Dutch in Englysh.
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- The original [and] sprynge of all sectes [and] orders by whome, wha or were they beganne. Translated out of hye Dutch in Englysh.
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- [Printed in Southwarke :: By me James Nicolson for Jhon Gough],
- 1537.
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- Monasticism and religious orders -- Early works to 1800.
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"The original [and] sprynge of all sectes [and] orders by whome, wha or were they beganne. Translated out of hye Dutch in Englysh." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68520.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 18, 2024.
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THe yeare. M. c. xcix. dyd Ihon surna∣med the goode a restorer of S. Au∣stins order florysh, which had such a pryck of the flesh, that he feared he sholde haue ben fayne to forsake religion, and to haue turned agayne to the world: wherfore he toke sharpe thornes, which he put vnder the nayles of hys handes, and put hys han∣des oft vnder a stone to preasse them, and chastysed hym selfe so harde that he was of∣tymes besyde hys wyt. He laye. iii. dayes spechlesse, so that he knew nothyng of hym∣selfe. At the which tyme a woyce shuld haue sayde to hym: Ihon, thou hast conquered, thou shalt nomore be assaulted of thy flesh. Thus was he at the fyrst a good mōke. Af∣ter thys he raysed vp the decayed order of saynte Austine, chaungynge lytell in gar∣ment, but makynge the order strayghter. U¦pon thys came many to se hys holynesse, which were steared to forsake the world, to renounce all, and to accōpany themselues to hym, yeldynge themselues to the lyfe of S. Austine. They buylded many cloysters, and surnamed themselues Sambonites or the good brethren: for he was called ye good Ihon or Iohannes bonus. Such is the be∣gynnynge
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(good reader) of the orders that swalow vp landes and people, and deuoure wedowes houses. It is a commune prouer∣be: A yonge angell, and olde deuell.