❧Of meke subiection and obedyence and that we shall gladly folowe the counseyle of other. The .ix. Chapitre.
IT is a greate thynge to be obedy∣ent to lyue vnder a Prelate / and in nothynge to seke oure owne lybertye.:♣
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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Page ix
It is mochemore suerer waye to stande in the state of obedyence / than in the state of prelacye. Many be vnder obedy∣ence more of necessyte than of charyte / and they haue great payne and lyghtely murmure & grudge: and they shall neuer haue lyberte and frydome of spyryte tyll they hooly submytte thēselfe vnto theyr superyoure. Go here & there where thou wylte / & thou shalte neuer fynde perfyte rest: but in meke obedience vnder the go∣uernaunce of thy prelate. The ymage∣nynge & the chaungynge of places hathe deceyued many a religious person / trou∣the it is that euery mā is dysposed to do after his owne wyll / and beeste can agre with thē that folowe hys wayes. But yf we wyll that god be amōge vs: we muste somtyme leue our owne wyll thoughe it seme good / that we may haue loue & pea∣ce with other. Who is so wyse that he can fully knowe all thynges: truely none. Therfore truste nat muche to thyn owne wytte. But here gladely the counseyle of other. And yf parcase the thynge whiche thou woldest haue done be good and pro∣fytable / and yet neuerthelesse thou leuest thyne owne wyll therin and foloweste o∣ther:
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Thou shalte fynde muche profyte therby. I haue ofte tymes herde say that it is more surer waye to here & take coun¦sayle than it is to gyue it. It is good to here euery mannes counsayle / but nat to agre whan reason requyreth it is a sygne of a greate syngularyte of mynde and of moche inwarde pryde.