I will tell thee this one thing, that there be many hypocrites, and, nevertheless, they think themselves to be none, and that there be many that dread and fear themselves to be hypocrites, and soothly are none; who is the one, and who is the other, God knows, and none but He. Whoso will humbly dread, shall not be beguiled, and whoso thinketh himself secure, he may lightly fall. | A translated by Serenus Cressy (1659) in the Art and Book Company edition (1901)
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