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HERE BEGINNETH THE FIVE AND TWENTIETH CHAPTER
That in the time of this work a perfect soul hath no special beholding to any one man in this life.
I SAY not that in this work he shall have a special beholding to any man in this life, whether that he be friend or foe, kin or stranger; for that may not be if this work shall perfectly be done, as it is when all things under God be fully forgotten, as falleth for this work. But I say that he shall be made so virtuous and so charitable by the virtue of this work, that his will shall be afterwards, when he con¬ descended to commune or to pray for his even-christian—not from all this work, for that may not be without great sin, but from the height of this
