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The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage: Second Book: Cha...

Christian MysticismFlemish MysticismJan van Ruysbroeck

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Now we find yet another kind of perverted men, who are in some points different from those already described; though they too believe themselves to be exempted from all works, and to be instruments with which God works what He wills. And therefore they say that they are in a purely passive state without activity; and that the works which God works through them are noble and meritorious beyond anything that another man, working his works himself by the grace of God, could do. And therefore they…

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