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BOOKS PRINTED BY [ Chastising of
880. The Chastysing of Goddes Chyldern.
TVithout Place or Date. Folio.
The title of tliis work is printed nearly in the centre of the recto of
the first leaf: being the only printed passage in this page. It occupies
2 lines, and nearly the whole of a 3 rd, and is strictly tlius :
€ &l)c ptonfTptaMe foc mancit 0oulc/ 3fnti rigljt
eomfortafsie to tije feobp/ anb o'pccpaHp in atJitcraitc t
trp^ulacjtjon/ tojijicljc fiofee ia callco Cije Cljaotpaing of
gontic^ Ctipltiern
The entire impression, with the exception of the above lines, is
executed in double columns, and on the reverse of the first leaf, is the
preface or prologue, as follows:
‘ Jn drede of almignty god Relygyous suster a short pistle I sende
you of the mater of temptacons, whiche pystle as me thynketh maye
resonably be cleped The Chastising of Goddes childern. Of this mater
ye haue desyred to knowe in comforte of your sowle. But nedeful it
were to you pacyently & gladly to sufifre suche goostly chastysing wyth
full faytlie & sadde hope, and abyde his ordenauce tyll he sende com-
forte by grace & bi mercy. Somtyme it falleth by the Rightwysnes &
wysdom of god, the more knoweng a man hathe. the stronger ben his
temptacyons. And all his cunynge is hyd away, & stondeth hym in
full lityl comfort. as for that time, in to that it plesye god for his grete
pyte to comforte hym by grace, soo that in hym is oonly our knoweng.
chastysing, & comfort, Also my suster I drede to wryte of suche hyghe
maters. for I neyther haue felyng ne knoweng openly to declare theym
in englyssh tongue. for it passeth my wytte to shewe you in ony
manere of comyn langage the termes of diuynite. Also I fele myself
vnworthy to haue the goostly scycnce, whereby I shold knowe or haue
an Inwarde feling what doetours wold meane in his holy writynge The
causes considred. and many other skylfuly. I may drede to write of
this chastysing But askyng helpe of god almyg’nty, by whoos might
the asse had speche to the propliete Balaam after your desire as
ferforth as I dare or know of teptacons, I wyll shewe you in specyall &
in generah & to hem remedies witli some other maters that lightly
wyll falle to purpose, submytyng me euermore Iowly to correcyon of
BOOKS PRINTED BY [ Chastising of
880. The Chastysing of Goddes Chyldern.
TVithout Place or Date. Folio.
The title of tliis work is printed nearly in the centre of the recto of
the first leaf: being the only printed passage in this page. It occupies
2 lines, and nearly the whole of a 3 rd, and is strictly tlius :
€ &l)c ptonfTptaMe foc mancit 0oulc/ 3fnti rigljt
eomfortafsie to tije feobp/ anb o'pccpaHp in atJitcraitc t
trp^ulacjtjon/ tojijicljc fiofee ia callco Cije Cljaotpaing of
gontic^ Ctipltiern
The entire impression, with the exception of the above lines, is
executed in double columns, and on the reverse of the first leaf, is the
preface or prologue, as follows:
‘ Jn drede of almignty god Relygyous suster a short pistle I sende
you of the mater of temptacons, whiche pystle as me thynketh maye
resonably be cleped The Chastising of Goddes childern. Of this mater
ye haue desyred to knowe in comforte of your sowle. But nedeful it
were to you pacyently & gladly to sufifre suche goostly chastysing wyth
full faytlie & sadde hope, and abyde his ordenauce tyll he sende com-
forte by grace & bi mercy. Somtyme it falleth by the Rightwysnes &
wysdom of god, the more knoweng a man hathe. the stronger ben his
temptacyons. And all his cunynge is hyd away, & stondeth hym in
full lityl comfort. as for that time, in to that it plesye god for his grete
pyte to comforte hym by grace, soo that in hym is oonly our knoweng.
chastysing, & comfort, Also my suster I drede to wryte of suche hyghe
maters. for I neyther haue felyng ne knoweng openly to declare theym
in englyssh tongue. for it passeth my wytte to shewe you in ony
manere of comyn langage the termes of diuynite. Also I fele myself
vnworthy to haue the goostly scycnce, whereby I shold knowe or haue
an Inwarde feling what doetours wold meane in his holy writynge The
causes considred. and many other skylfuly. I may drede to write of
this chastysing But askyng helpe of god almyg’nty, by whoos might
the asse had speche to the propliete Balaam after your desire as
ferforth as I dare or know of teptacons, I wyll shewe you in specyall &
in generah & to hem remedies witli some other maters that lightly
wyll falle to purpose, submytyng me euermore Iowly to correcyon of