not alway last in the feeling of that ghostly joy, for the corruption of the flesh, of the which corruption sin is the cause; then he riseth with a strong feeling of hatred against all sin and all kind of sin.  This feeling taught David us to have, where he saith in the psalm:  “Be ye wroth and will ye not sin";[86] that is thus to mean:  Be ye wroth with the sin, but not with the kind.[87] For kind stirreth to the deed, but not to sin.  And here it is to wete that this wrath and this hatred is not contrary to charity, but charity teacheth how it shall be had both in a man’s self and in his even Christian;[88] for a man should [not] hate sin [so that he destroy his kind, but so that he destroy the sin and the appetite of sin] in his kind.  And, as against our even Christian, we ought to hate sin in him, and to love him; and of this hatred speaketh David in the psalm, where he saith thus:  “With perfect hatred I hated them."[89] And in another psalm he saith that “he had in hatred all wicked ways."[90] Thus it is well proved that, ere Zebulun was born, Judah and Issachar were both born.  For but if a man have had charity and ghostly joy in his feeling first, he may in no wise feel this perfect hatred of sin in his affection.  For Judah, that is to say, charity, teacheth us how we shall hate sin in ourself and in our brethren; and Issachar, that is to say, ghostly feeling of joy in God, teacheth us why we shall hate sin in ourself and in our brethren.  Judah biddeth us hate sin and love the kind; and Issachar biddeth us destroy the sin and save the kind; and thus it falleth for to be that the kind may be made strong in God and in ghostly things by perfect hatred and destroying of sin.  And therefore is Zebulun cleped in the story “a dwelling stead of strength."[91] And Leah said in his birth:  “My husband shall now dwell with me";[92] and so it is that God, that is the true husband of our soul, is dwelling in that soul, strengthening it in the affection with ghostly joy and sweetness in His love, that travaileth busily to destroy sin in himself and in others by perfect hatred of the sin and all the kind of sin.  And thus it is said how Zebulun is born.

CAPITULUM IX

HOW ORDAINED SHAME RISETH AND GROWETH IN THE AFFECTION

But though all that a soul through grace feel in it perfect hatred of sin, whether it may yet live without sin?  Nay, sikerly;[93] and therefore let no man presume of himself, when the Apostle saith thus:  “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourself, and soothfastness is not in us."[94] And also saint Austin saith that he dare well say that there is no man living without sin.[95] And I pray thee, who is he that sinneth not in ignorance?  Yea, and oft times it falleth that God suffereth those men to fall full grievously by the which He hath ordained other men’s errors to be righted, that they may learn by their own falling how merciful they shall