But surely,
counsel dare I give no man to adventure that way with them. But
those who fear lest that way be not sure, and take upon themselves
willingly tribulation of penance--what comfort they do take, and
well may take therein, that have I somewhat told you already. And
since these other folk sit so merry with such tribulation, we need
talk to them, you know, of no such manner of comfort.
And therefore of this kind of tribulation will I make an end.
VIII
VINCENT: Verily, good uncle, so may you well do, for you have
brought it unto a very good pass.
And now, I pray you, come to the other kind, of which you purposed
always to treat last.
ANTHONY: That shall I, cousin, very gladly do. The other kind is
the one which I rehearsed second, and (sorting out the other two)
have kept for the last. This second kind of tribulation is, you
know, of those who willingly suffer tribulation, though of their
own choice they took it not at first.
This kind, cousin, we shall divide into twain; the first we might
call temptation, the second persecution. But here must you
consider that I mean not every kind of persecution, but only that
kind which, though the sufferer would be loth to fall in, yet will
he rather abide it and suffer than, by flying from it, fall into
the displeasure of God or leave God's pleasure unprocured.
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