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Mystical Prayer

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When a soul beginneth to feel grace work in him, he waxeth then sorry for his sin, and remembreth his great unkindness done against God and in what peril his soul is in; he weepeth and waileth his offence and with great sorrow and lamentation crieth and calleth to God for mercy. Then thus continuing he getteth him to religion, or at leastwise to confession, there purging himself clean from all rust of sin by contrition and penance doing. Anon he feeleth him clean in body and soul and delivered from gnawing of conscience, which is the greatest pain on earth. Then continently he feeleth great sweetness both in reading and prayer and sermons hearing, thinking that this doth all worldly solace exceed, and great comfort he feeleth in that which not long before was full tedious and painful to him.

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Research Article
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Life of the Spirit , Volume 4 , Issue 40 , October 1949 , pp. 147 - 148
Copyright
Copyright © 1949 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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References

1 Forthwith.

2 French prêt = ready; with old sense, quick.

3 Kind in this and all medieval contexts means ‘nature’; ‘kindly’ is ‘according to the nature of’. So here ‘what God is in himself and his attributes’.

4 i.e., not at once.

5 silly = simple; cf. expression ‘silly sheep’, simple sheep.