{"collection":"Christian Texts","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_chr_asm_asm043_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_chr_asm_asm043_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_chr_asm_asm043_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/asm/asm043.htm","summary":"Inward devotion often brings forth gratitude; for none can thank and praise God so well as the inward and devout man. And it is just that we should thank and praise God, because He has created us as reasonable creatures, and has ordained and destined heaven and earth and the angels to our service; and because He became man for our sins, and taught us, and lived for our sake, and showed us the way; and because He has ministered to us in humble raiment, and suffered an ignominous death for the\u2026","tags":["Christian Mysticism","Flemish Mysticism","Jan van Ruysbroeck"],"text":null,"title":"The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage: Second Book: Chapter XIII. Of Gratitude","tradition":"Christian Texts","translated_text":null,"word_count":470}