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The Cloud of Unknowing, ed. by Evelyn Underhill, [1922], at sacred-texts.com


 

HERE BEGINNETH THE SEVEN AND TWENTIETH CHAPTER

 

Who should work in the gracious work of this book.

 

FIRST and foremost, I will tell thee who should work in this work, and when, and by what means: and what discretion thou shalt have in it. If thou asketh me who shall work thus, I answer thee—all that have forsaken the world in a true will, and thereto that give them not to active life, but to that life that is called contemplative life. All those should work in this grace and in this work, whatsoever that they be; whether they have been accustomed sinners or none. p. 167


Next: Chapter 28: That a man should not presume to work in this work before the time that he be lawfully cleansed in conscience of all his special deeds of sin