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But thou heavenly life, thou art she whom God hath ordained & prepared for them that love him, thou art the heavenly life, the blessed life, the sure life, the quiet life, the fair life, the clean life, the chaste life, the holy life, the life that knowest no death, knowest no sadness or pen sivens, a life without spot, with out dolour, without vexation, with out corruption, without trouble without variety or mutability, a life most full of pleasure & dignity, where as is none adversary to strive against a man, no ⟨p. 95⟩enticements of sins, where as is per fect love without all manner of fear, where as is day continually an done spirit of all men.

BUt thou heauenly life, thou art she whom God hath ordeined & prepared for them that loue him, thou art the heauenly life, the blessed life, the sure life, the quyet life, the fair life, the clean life, the chastelife, the holy life, the life that knowest no death, knowest no sadnes or pen siuens, a life without spot, with out dolor, without vexatiō, with out corruption, without trouble without varietie or mutabilitie, a life moste full of plesure & dignitie, wher as is none aduersary to striue against a man, no intice ⟨p. 95⟩ments of sinnes, where as is per fect loue without all maner of feare, wher as is day continually an done spirit of all men.

Whereas God is seen face to face and the mind is fed with this meat of life without end, I have a very good mind and desire to mark and give heed to thy clearness, with thy goods, the desire and appetite of my hart is delighted. Look how much I am able to consider with my self, in musing and thinking of thy come modities: even so much am I ravished and rapt with thy love with the ardent desire of thee, and with the sweet and comfortable ⟨image 97⟩remembrance of thee, am I wonderfully delighted. I have a pleasure therefore, surely to lift up the eyes of my hart unto thee, to erect the state of my mind, and conform or fashion the affects of my mind unto thee: It pleaseth me to talk of thee, to hear of thee, to write of thee, to confer & meditate of thee, to read every day of thy blessedness and glory, and to muse often times in my mind of the things I have red concerning thee, that at the least by such means, I being under the sweet refreshing and comfor ting of thy lively air, may pas from the vexations, jeopardies,