A boke newly translated out of Latyn in to Englisshe, called The folowing of Christe with the Golden epistel of saynt Barnard.
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- A boke newly translated out of Latyn in to Englisshe, called The folowing of Christe with the Golden epistel of saynt Barnard.
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- [London :: R. Redman,
- 1535?]
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- Meditations -- Early works to 1800.
- Christian life -- Early works to 1800.
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"A boke newly translated out of Latyn in to Englisshe, called The folowing of Christe with the Golden epistel of saynt Barnard." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68812.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2025.
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Page xv
HAue alwaye a good eye to thy selfe: & beware thou iuge nat lyghtly other men. In iugyng other men a man ofte laboureth in vaine ofte erreth and lyghtly offēdeth god / but in iugynge hym selfe and his owne dedes he alwaye laboureth frutfully and to his ghostly profyte / we iuge oft tymes after our herte and our owne affeccyons & nat after the truthe / for we ofte l••se the true iugement throughe our pryuate loue. But if god were alwaye the hole intente of our desyre we shulde nat so lightly erre in our iugemētes / nor so lightly be trou∣bled for that we be resisted of our wyll / but cōmenly there is in vs some inwarde inclynacion or some outwarde affeccyon that draweth our herte with them frome the true iugemēt. Many {per}sōs throughe a secrete loue that they haue to theyr self worke vndescretely after theyr owne wil and nat after the wyll of god / & yet they wene nat so / & they seme to stande ī great inwarde peace whan thynges folowe af∣ter theyr mīde: but if it folowe otherwyse than they wolde / anone they be moued with impacience and be ryght heuy and pensyfe. By diuersities of oppynyons be
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sprōge many tymes dyscenciōs bytwene frendes & neyghbours / and also bytwene religious & deuout persones. And olde cu¦stome is hardly broken and no man wyll lyghtly be remoued from his owne wyll / but if thou cleue more to thyne owne wyl or to thyne owne reason thā to the meke obediēce of Iesu Christe / it wyll be longe or thou be a mā illumined with grace / for almyghty god wyll that we be perfytely subiecte & obediente to hym / and that we ascende & ryse hyghe aboue our owne wil & aboue our owne reason by a great bren¦nynge loue and a hole desyre to hym.