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A13670 A full deuoute and gostely treatyse of the imytacyon and folowynge the blessed lyfe of our moste mercyfull Sauyour cryste compyled in Laten by the right worshypful Doctor Mayster Iohn Gerson: and translate into Englisshe the yere of owre lorde M.d.ii. by maister william Atkynson Doctor of diuinite: at ye speciall request [and] co[m]maundeme[n]t of the full excellent Pryncesse Margarete moder to our souerayne lorde Kynge Henry the. vii. and Countesse of Rychemount and Derby.; Imitatio Christi. English. Atkinson, William, d. 1509.; Gersen, Giovanni, Abbot of Vercelli, 14th cent., attributed name.; Thomas, à Kempis, 1380-1471, attributed name. 1517 (1517) STC 23957; ESTC S107339 132,115 238

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conuersaunt with company of honest name and fame feythfull and ferue● in the loue of god And contrarye wyse it is gr●●oꝰ to be accompanyed with tho that be disordered bothe to god and man that nouther as louer●●● feithfull subiectes haue complenisshed those 〈◊〉 that thei be called to Howe inconuenient 〈◊〉 is a ꝑsone to be neclygent in those thynges that he is called to of our lorde and to gyue hede to those thynges that he is nat bounde to Reduce to thy remembraunce the state of thy perfeccion that thou ●●t called to the ymitacion of iesu criste or seruice Cōsider well his life how ferre thy life discordeth therfro thou shalt fide thy selfe no good dyscyple nor scoler hut rather a ●●uynde or a postata That relygious soule that deuoutly exercyseth it selfe ī the lyse and passiō of oure lorde shall fynde therin all thynges ꝑfitable necessarie for it habundauntly shall nat nede to seche any better thinge than in thys lyfe is conteined O that soule that myght alweye haue the remembrāce of Iesu crucifyed how sone sufficiently shulde yt be enfourmed with knowlege necessarie A feruent rely gius soule paciently suffreth obserueth those thynges that be cōmaunded to it And a necligente a remysse religious soule hath tribulacy on vpon trybulacion and suffreth anguy sshe tribulacy on on euery party that is for it lacketh inly cōsolvcyon and is cestrayned from ourwarde cōfort That relyyious persone that lyuethe without discyplene is redy to fall to ruyne And that man that euer seketh more large maner ane liberte in his lyfe shall be alwey in anguyss he trouble and euershal dysplese hym outher that lyfe that he hath begonne or elles for he hath lefte a better Take hede howe many religious people for the loue of god euerlastīge ioye liberte nowe obediently lyueth vnder the rule of strayte religion They be withdrawen from the worlde and desyre nat to be greatly conuersaunte with the worlde they be porely fedde content wyth vyle grosse clochynge they labour moche speke but lytell superfluously they watche longe and sone ryse longe in prayer and holy redynge of frutfull doctrine and that they may come to euerlastynge liberte They kepe theyr selfe fro the space of thys shorte lyfe vnder obedience and in pryson Cōsyder the holy orders of relygyon bothe of men women as those of the charterhouse obseruauntis minors ●●minores holy ankours ankeres how besily thei ●bou● nyght day to plese serue our lorde These quicke examples of so great multitude shulde induce the to be a shamed to be so indeuoute remysse in the seruyce of god O howe iocunde plesaunt a lyfe shulde it be to a soule that had no wordly thīge to do but loue god contynually with all hys herte in warkes and wordes O if we myghte contynue in this lyfe without bodely refeccion as etynge drin ●yngeslepynge or any other bodely necessires and gyue hede only to holy medytacion gostly fedīge ce●eccion of o●re soule than we shulde be moche happy than we be nowe in seruynge attendynge more for bodely thynges than gostly ꝓ●ite whann man cometh ones to that perfeccion that he secheth consolacion of no creature than begineth he to haue a spirituall tallage in god and whan he is contēt with euery fortune as well with aduersite as ꝓsperyte conformynge and referrynge al his warkis to god to serue obey to his will Euer remembre the ende of euery thynge that thou begynnest and also that tyme loste can nat be recouered and thou shalt neuer obteyne vertue without labour diligence whan thou begynnest to be remysse in spirituall labours than thou begynneste to waxe euyll If thou applye thy selfe spiritually to more vertu thou shalt fynde greate pease and than by grace of god loue that thou hast to vertue thou shalt fīde the spiritual exercyse in vertue euermore delectable lyghter A feruent louynge soule is euer redy to all thynges that be expedient to the plesure of god spiritual ꝓfite of it selfe It is more labour to resist vyce and iordinate passions than to be occupied in bobely labours if thou wilt nat gyue hede to auoide the lesse synne thou shalte sone be enduced to the more And whan thou hast brought the day to the euyntyde in vertuous occupacion without any gret displesure to to our lorde than thou maiste be glad suerlyetake thy rest in hym And euer before all other soules giue hede to thyn owue soule excite moue thy self to vertue what so euer thou doest be neruer neclygēti those thynges that be necessary for thy soule loke howe moche thou desirest to ꝓfite so moche aplie thy selfe vyolently to gostly spiritual labours and thus endeth the first boke of Iohn̄ Gerson of the Imytacion of Criste ¶ Here begynneth the .ii. boke of Iohn̄ Gerson of the inwarde deuoute conuersacion of the soule of man AFter the sentence of our sauyour Iesu crist the inwarde regne of god is in the soule of man Returne thy self with all thy hert to our lorde forsake the inordi nat loue of the worlde thy soule shall fynde rest lerne to ꝯtēpne outward thīg● aplie thy mīde to inwarde thīges thou shalt ꝑceiue that the kyngdome of god shall come to the wherwithe comith peas ioye in the holy goost that is nat graūted to no wicked man If y● wylte prepare ī thy soule a condynge mansion criste shall come and abyde there to thy inly consolacyon All the pryncipall ioy and delite that god hath in man is in the obedyence and vertue of the sowle there he is customeably with merueylous swetnesse and great famyliaryte comfortably fedynge it with goostely speche doctryne O thou feythefull sowle prepare thy herte to Criste thy spouse that he may come therto and by his goodnes make therin a mansyon For he sayth in the gospell of Iohn̄ who so loueth me he shall obserue my cōmaundementes and my fader I with the holy gost shall come to hym and make with him inhabitaciō by grace vntyll we brīge hym to y● celestiall habitacion of glorye Make redy a place ī thy soule to hym that create it andlette nothynge haue interesse therin that maye offende hym If he abide with the that is lorde of all rychesse how maist thou ●e poore he shal be a sufficient and a feythefull prouysoure for the in all thynge expedient for the ī who me thou muste more constauntly hope and byleue than in euery creature for all creatures mortall be mutable for thoughe they promise neuer so suerlye ●et they may besone chaunged But crist that is the ●●ete firmament euer in one abydynge may uat of ●●y wyse breke hys absolute promyse Be a frende that is mortall neuer so feythefull or beloued yet in ●●at that he is mortall frayle he may be chaūged They that this day be thy frendes
lorde to assist vs ī our trouble is perfite mekens for as Dauidsaith he shall saue exalte those that be meke in spirite in tēptaciō tribulacion man is ꝓued howe moche he ꝓfiteth his vertue is more manifeste It is no gret m̄uell if a deuout mā without tēptaciō haue feruor of spirite But they that in tyme of aduersite can aplye theymselfe to haue feruour of spirite it is a signe of stablenes grace for to come There be some that be kept fro great tēptacion yet ī smale dayly tēptacions they be oftymes ouercome with lytell tēptacion Therfore in great tēptaciō they euer fere to be ouercome ¶ The .xiiii. Chaptre of vndiscrete iugement to be auoyded Gyue hede that thou consyder well thy propre warkes be nat redy to iuge the dedes of another that ꝑteynethe nat to the ne for whome thou shalt gyue none accōpt at thy dethe Man laboreth in vayne oftymes in iugeynge other men sone offendeth but in serchynge hys owne defautes considerynge them he euer laboreth frutfully And we comonly be redy to iuge after oure affeccion many tymes we erre frome the truthe in iugement for our pryde synguler loue And good were oure entent desire we shulde nat be so greatly troubled in the resistence of oure sensuall desires But there ys some inwarde inclynacion or outwarde affeccyon that withdraweth vs fro the very affeccion desire that we shulde haue There be many that in thīges that they do rather seche theyr owne lucre than the pleasure of god or the comon ꝓfyte of many other they thynke theyr mynde is set patyfyed if they obteyne theyr purpose if the cōtrarye fortune they be moued with ●paciēce be miscōtēt And for diuer sites of affeccions desyres opinions that be amōge the people oftymes be some dissencions debatys amonge frendes cytezins deuout religious peple It is harde to leue a custome of longe continuaūce no man is glade to forsake his ꝓpre appetite vnderstādynge desire And thou be more redy to applie to thyne owne reason vnderstandinge than to the holy doctrine of seruaunt ▪ of iesy crist It shal be longe or thou be gostly lyghtned for our lorde sendeth nat the great habundaūce of spirituall lyghte but to them that forsake their owne ꝓpre appetites resons folow hym by mekenes ¶ The .xv. chapt̄ of y● ꝓfite of warkis ōde ī charite THou shuldest nat do a mortall sinne for loue fauour of any creature ne for no erthly creture or worldly ꝓmocion For therby thou shuldest put thy selfe out of the loue of our lorde ieopderdy of the losse of euerlastynge promocyon And sometyme it is expediēt to leue a good dede for the great necessite of our neyghbour or elles for a better dede to be done wherby we be nat hyndered in vertue but rather promoted The outwarde operacyon be yt neuer so commendable in the syght of the people without charyte it auaylethe nat in the syghte of god whyche accepteth more the faythful entent and feruour of mynde than the many folde multipliynge of great warkes or of wordes Tho persones done moche that ordreth theyr lyfe to the honoure of god rather to the profite of the comō wele than to their owne synguler ꝓfyte There be many worldly people that thynke they doo many thynges of charyte but they be rather done of carnalyte as all tho that do theyr workes by the meane of carnall affeccyon ꝓpre wyll hope of ꝓmocion alwey haue an iye to theyr owne synguler auayle But charite euer īclyneth to do that that princypally may do honour to god obteyne the goodes goostly rather than temporall in bodely goodes it preserueth the comone wele afore a priuate synguler wele the charitable man enuyeth no man for any pryuate ioye or pleasure ne he lyketh nat to magnifie hym selfe but to magnyfie glorifie god in hym to be blessed He cōmaundeth no man by adulacyon but he referreth al cōmendacion honour goodnes to god finally of whome cometh al grace in whome al blessed creatures resteth perpetuall in finall felicite O he that had but one sparkle of charite wolde repute al wordly plesures loue but vanyte ¶ The .xvi. Chaptre howe a man shulde suffre the defautes of his neyghbour THose fautes that we may nat amēde in our selfe nor in other we must paciētly sussre tyll that we se what our lorde wyll worke or order therin thinke that it is ordeyned of our lorde for to ꝓue our pacyence without whiche our merytes be lytell to be pondered And it is expediēt for vs to pray to owre lorde that we by his grace may pacientely suffre owre necessary defautes ¶ If thou monisshe by broderly correccyon thy broder or suster ones or twyse of they re defaute If they receyue nat thy monicion striue nat with theym but commyte it to god that his wyll and honour be done in al his seruaūtes there is no euyll in this world but he knowith how he shall order it to some well goodnes study paciently to suffre the defautes īfirmites of other for thou hast many imperfeccions in thy selfe whiche other suffre in the If thou canste nat make thy selfe as thou woldest be ī euery condicion howe than shuldest thou desire to haue an other to thy pleasure we wolde gladly haue other perfite yet we labour nat to amende our owne offencis we wolde that other that offendeth shulde be straitly correcte our selfe more coulpable vncorrecte It displesithe vs to see other haue great liberte priuelege disirig that they shulde be restreyned by lawe statut and we desire oure selfe to be at liberte without lawe or statute so it appereth that we full seldōe praise our neyghbour as our selfe the whiche we shulde do yf we were ꝑfite Our lorde hath so ordeyned that we shall lerne echone of other to bere paciently the burden of an other for i this worlde there is no man without defaute no man without burdē no man sufficient of hym selfe in wisdome or prudence therfore must echone of vs helpe to bere the burdē of other echone to comfort other helpe other istructe theym monisshe them And who is of more vertue it aperith by the occasiōs af aduersite Occasiōs makith nat a ꝑsone fraile but they shewe whether he be vertuous or vycyous ¶ The .xvii. chaptre how a ꝑsone shulde order him IF thou wylt haue peas selfe to come to pease and concorde withe other thou muste make a restraynige in many thynges of thyne owne wyll ●ys no lytell vertue to contynue in a company with out dissencion or debate so to continue Blessed be tho persons that whether they be religious or seculer that fereth to offende god in theyr cōuersacion hurteth no soule so endeth theyr lyfe in the loue of god of their neighbour And thou wylt surely stāde in vertue repute