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The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage: Second Book: Chapter XXIX. Showing What the Forsaken Man Should Do

Christian MysticismFlemish MysticismJan van Ruysbroeck

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Here the man should bethink himself with a humble heart that of his own he has nothing but misery; and he should say in resignation and self-abandonment the words which were spoken by the holy man Job: "The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; as it pleased the Lord, so it hath been done; blessed be the name of the Lord. And he should renounce himself in all things, and should say and mean in his heart, "Lord, I am as willing to be poor in all those things of which I have been deprived as I…

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