The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 118 pages of information about The Cell of Self-Knowledge .

The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 118 pages of information about The Cell of Self-Knowledge .

[291]Cf.  Mother Juliana, Revelations of Divine Love, i. cap. 9:  “In general I am, I hope, in onehead of charity with all my even Christian, for in this onehead standeth the life of all mankind that shall be saved.”

[292]If it is still guilty of the other two.

[293]Pepwell adds:  “and voluptuous.”

[294]Ps. cxxxii. (Vulgate cxxxi. ) 13.

[295]Cf.  Walter Hilton, The Ladder of Perfection, ii. pt. ii. cap. 3:  “Jerusalem is, as much as to say, a sight of peace, and betokeneth contemplation in perfect love of God; for contemplation is nothing else but a sight of God, which is very peace.”

[296]Probably Isa. lvii. 15.

[297]Pepwell reads:  “most folly.”

[298]Pepwell adds:  “or harm.”  Cf.  The Chronicle of Robert of Brunne, 8905-6:  “Now may ye lyghtly bere the stones to schip wythouten dere.”

[299]Advisedly.

[300]Partisans, abettors.

[301]The MSS. read:  “doles.”

[302]Pepwell reads:  “But it is more sorrow to feel of our own spirit’s deceits.  For sometime our own spirit.”

[303]The MSS. read:  “Bot what thar reche”; what need to care.

[304]Pepwell reads:  “didst feel in there.”

[305]Cf. above, p. 95, note.

[306]Pepwell adds:  “and judgment.”

[307]Unless because of carelessness in resisting them when they first come.

[308]To regard thyself as responsible.

[309]Madness.

[310]Not in Harl.  Ms. 674.

[311]Pepwell reads:  “a full damnable and a full cursed fiend in his living.”

[312]Pepwell adds:  “and desire much.”

[313]Pepwell reads:  “suggestion.”

[314]On the other hand.

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