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HERE BEGINNETH THE SIX AND TWENTIETH CHAPTER
That without full special grace, or long use in common grace, the work of this book is right travailous; and in this work, which is the work of the soul helped by grace, and which is the work of only God.
AND therefore travail fast awhile, and beat upon this high cloud of unknowing, and rest afterward. Nevertheless, a travail shall he have who so shall use him in this work; yea, surely! and that a full great travail, unless he have a more special grace, or else that he have of long time used him therein.
But I pray thee, wherein shall that travail be? Surely not in that devout stirring of love that is continually
