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Passages similar to: Cloud of Unknowing — 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
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Cloud of Unknowing
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 (1)
BUT if thou asketh me when they should work in this work, then I answer thee and I say: that not ere they have cleansed their conscience of all their special deeds of sin done before, after the common ordinance of Holy Church.
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Chapter XII: Human Nature Possesses An Adaptation for Perfection; the Gnostic Alone Attains It. (3)
He recognises sin itself, which is not brought forward in order to repentance (for this is common to all believers); but what sin is. Nor does he cond...