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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Title: 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.
Author: Whitford, Richard, fl. 1495-1555?
Publication: [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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¶That by due obedience: large coniecture may be had of the state of the soule. The .xix. Chapitre.

A Great singuler conforte / profytte and pleasure vnto al deuoute christianes / is to knowe (at the leest by coniecture) in what case or state of saluacion: the soule doth stande / whiche is best knowen by loue. For who so is in charite: dwellethe in god / and god in hym / but no persone can loue god: excepte he fyrste loue his neghboure. For saynt Iohan sayth / he y^• lo¦ueth nat his neghboure:* 1.1 whome he may se & {per}ceyue w^t his bodely syght: howe can he loue god whome he can neuer so se ne {per}ceyue? as though he mēt / y^t he myght nat loue god ī any wyse / w^tout y^e loue of his neghboure.* 1.2 In this one thyng (sayth he) we knowe wel / y^t we ben trāslate & chaūged frō deth vnto lyfe bycause we done loue our brother. For who so euer dothe nat loue: dwelleth and is drowned in dethe / by loue than muste the state of the soule be knowen. Who so euer dothe perceiue in conscience: that he is in charite with all persones / and louethe all as hym selfe and hateth none: he may hope and truste well that he louethe god. But nexte vnto god & our selfe

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we ben moste bounde to loue our parētes / specially the spirituall parentes / our souereynes of religion Due louynge obedience vnto whome: is a testimo∣nie of our loue and obedience vnto our lorde whose rowme they beare. For he sayd vnto his disciples. If you byde and continue in due obedience & eche loue other:* 1.3 than shall you be in dede my disciples & so knowe for my disciples / so is obedience (than) {per}∣fytable vnto the soule.

Notes

* 1.1

1. Io. 4. D.

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* 1.2

1, Io. 3. C.

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* 1.3

Io. 8.

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