THan gyue good hede / and awayte vn¦to your cogitacions and thoughtes. For those wyll best teche you of what desyre your fraylte is. For by the co∣gitacions: done aryse the troubles & assayles of the fesshe. And those cogitaciōs ben cau∣sed in the mynde diuersely. Sometyme: of aboun∣daunce of blode / that is caused by superfluite of fe∣dynge. For the whiche: the olde fathers / wolde say / it were nat possible to be without vnclene cogitaci∣ons: without due temperaūce. In so moche as they wolde forbed theyr disciples / that were troubled wt vnclene thoughtes: to fede vpon breade onely & wa¦ter / at wyll and appetite. Default also of due custo∣dy and garde of the outwarde sēses: is also a cause of vnclene thought{is} / as of hearing / seyng / touching &c. Wherof we haue spoken byfore. An other occasi¦on of vnclene thoughtes: is the malice of the great enymy the dyuell. But his malice (althoughe it be subtyle and busye) yet may it lyghtly / & sone be van¦quysshed / & he put vnto flyght / wt one worde alone / as Iesus / or with one lytell sygne of the crosse / or
Here begynneth the boke called the Pype, or tonne, of the lyfe of perfection The reason or cause wherof dothe playnely appere in the processe.
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- Here begynneth the boke called the Pype, or tonne, of the lyfe of perfection The reason or cause wherof dothe playnely appere in the processe.
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- Whitford, Richard, fl. 1495-1555?
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- [Imprynted at london :: In fletestrete, by me Robert Redman, dwellynge in saynt Dunstones parysshe, next the churche,
- In the yere of our lorde god a thousande fyue hondred and. xxxii. [1532] the xxiii. day of Marche]
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one good thought / if he be dispised & set at nought. But if vnclene cogitaciōs: do remayne in ye mynde as ymages / steppes / or print{is} / of any vnclene actes or byhauiours / or of any vnlawfull consentes / and haue (by vayne pleasure accustomed and vsed) takē theyr habitacion / theyr lodgyng / & dwellyng place in the mynde: they wyll nat than be so lyghtly remo¦ued and put away. For than wyll they (in maner) {pre}¦cribe & saye: whan laboure is made agayne thē: we haue nowe ben here abydyng so longe: yt this place is vnto vs as naturall (For custome doth alter na∣ture) And therfore we wyll nat hens / be nat aboute to dryue vs awaye / it boteth nat / all is last loboure / ye had power: at fyrste begynnynge of our entre: to shyt vs out and with smale diligence and lytell la∣boure: myght you haue chased vs away. But now that we be admitted by custome: it is nat (as saynt Isodoure sayth) possible to remoue vs. Impossi∣ble or nat possible: is many tymes taken / for harde to bryng to passe. And so doth sait Isodour meane.