The prouffytable boke for ma[n]nes soule, and right comfortable to the body, and specyally in aduersitee [and] trybulacyon, whiche boke is called The chastysing of goddes chyldern
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- The prouffytable boke for ma[n]nes soule, and right comfortable to the body, and specyally in aduersitee [and] trybulacyon, whiche boke is called The chastysing of goddes chyldern
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- [Westminster :: Printed by Wynkyn de Worde,
- 1493]
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- Subject terms
- Spiritual life -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 -- Early works to 1800.
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Contents
- title page
- author's preface
- ¶ Here begynneth the table of this present boke /
- ¶ That holy men & gode men ben more tempted than other / and how our lorde playeth with his childer by ensāple of the moder & hir chyl¦de / and what Joye & myrthe is in our lordes presence / Caplo j.
- ¶ Of vj. pryncypal causes why our lorde wythdraweth his comfor¦tes fro his chyldern / and of dyuer∣se maner of ghostly affecciōs whi¦che somtyme ben wythdrawen for grete necligence and vnkyndnes Caplm / ij.
- ¶ How a man shal haue hym in receyuīg of grace & ghostly vysita∣cōns & how some bē begyled wyth a fals swetnes / whan they bē vysi¦ted wyth ony suche cōfortes iij.
- ¶ How desolate a man stondeth in absence of our lord. & how lowli he shall bere hym whan comfort is wythdrawen. Caplm ¶ iiij.
- ¶ How our lorde chastyseth hys chyldern by ensaple of the moder & of her louyng chylde / caplm v.
- ¶ Of vi-generall temptacōns & other in specyall / caplm vj.
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¶ How a man shal conferme hī to our lorde in sotnes & hardnes / & how some for grutchyng bē forsa∣kē of our lorde. for that tyme / & liʒt¦ly falen in to ghostly infyrmytees / Cap
m ¶ vij. - ¶ Of foure ghostly Infyrmytees whyche ben likned to foure dyuers feuers / Caplm / ¶ viij
- ¶ That some men by temptacōn seken kyndly reste / and a fals ydle¦nes as for hye perfeccōn. & by this errour they fall in to other errours Caplm ¶ ix.
- ¶ That some men lyuen in grete penaunce / and doone many thyn∣ges outward / to be holden holy. but they lyuen contraryously. to charite & liue sinfully / for thei se¦ke all the loue of kynde / & holde pre¦uest many other opinyons / x.
- ¶ How some other men went they haue fredom of spyrite. & that they ben vnyed to god wythouten ony meane Wherfore they say that they ben not boūde to noo lawes of holy chyrche. and that they ben dys∣charged of all maner̄ werkynges & of all outwarde vertues / xj.
- ¶ How some of suche men holden that to what euery thyng they ben styred / whether it acorde to crystes liuyng & techynge or not. All co∣myth of the holy ghost / xij.
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¶ What prouffyte comyth to a manis soule bi temptacōns / & that temptacions & trybulacōns
sen de to man for v. pryncipall causes Caplm / xiij. - ¶ Of the temptacyons of dyspey¦re / and of remedyes agaynst suche temptacyons / Caplm / xiiij.
- ¶ Of predestinacion & prescience of god / & of hem that ben traueylled wyth suche maner̄ maters / xv.
- ¶ Of wyckid spirytes & her pow¦er that they haue by suffraunce of god. and howe greuous they were in olde tyme to our holy faders / Caplm xvj
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¶ Of specyall ensamplis how ho¦ly men in olde tyme for lyghte de∣fawtes to our sighte. were chasty¦sed sodenly wyth bodely Infyrmyte¦es / and somtyme greuously trauei¦led wyth yllusions & wycked spiri¦tes / And what
emedye longeth to hem that ben traueiled with wic¦ked spirites or fulli assented to her yllusions / Caplm xvij -
¶ That many men & wymen b
dysceyued by many euelacyons▪ vysions: and that there ben thre pryncypall kyndes of vysions / Capitulum xviij. -
¶ How they sholde be
yamyned that haue vysions or u lacōns to knowe whether they comen of a good angell / or of a wyckid spiry te: Caplm xix. -
¶ Of vij. specyall tokens / by the whyche a man shall knowe visy∣ons of a good spiryte f
o illusiōs of the deuyll / Caplm xx. -
¶ Vigilate / & c̄ / ¶ That vysions prophecies / dona cyons / or other ghost
y comfortyn¦ges. or werkynge of myracles pre¦ue not a man nor woman holy ne perfyghte▪ And how a man shall receyue all suche specyall ghostly graces / that he be not dysceyued Capitulum xxi. - ¶ How slouth & Idlenes gender siknes & how werkyng with gra∣ce is nedful / & how thre. kyndes of mē fall by vnstablenes / & that vn¦stablenes is cause of all other / the iiij. ghostli feuers & cause of all o∣ther errours shewed before / & what remedye may be to hē that ben fall in to suche errours / ca. xxij.
- ¶ Of affeccōns. & specyal of reso¦nable affeccōn / whiche somtyme bi tēptacōns bē turned & chaūged: & what is the cause & remedye ayēst this tēptacōn Caplm xxiij.
- ¶ How pacycus is a generall re¦medy ayenst all traueyles & temp∣tacōns / and of other general reme¦dyes ayenst all goostly temptacy∣ons / caplm xxiiij
- ¶ Of a specyall remedye ayenst dyuers traueyles & passions / that come of the seuen pryncipall vices Capitulum xxv
- ¶ That satisfaccōn & traueylle wyth bodeli affliccōns & ghostli bē nedeful to purgacōn of the sowle. aslonge as a man or womā is tra¦ueyled wyth ony manere passyon / Capitulum xxvj.
- ¶ Recapytulacōn of all thise ma¦ters. & of four maner of prayers Capitulum xvij.
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¶ Explicit hic liber castigacōnis puerro
dei.