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Title: The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion

Author: Desiderius Erasmus

Release Date: January 20, 2005 [EBook #14746]

Language: English

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A dialoge
or communication of
two persons, deuysyd
and set forthe in the la-
te tonge, by the noble
and famose clarke.
_Desiderius Erasmus_
intituled ye pyl-
gremage of
pure de-
uoty-
on.

Newly traslatyd into
Englishe.

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|| [+] ij.||

To the reder.

Amongest the writinges of all men, dearly belouyd
reder, not onely of the diuersyte of tongues, but also
the noble drawghts of so artificyall paynted figures,
whiche haue so lyuely expressed to ye quycke ymage, the
nature, ordre, & proporcyon of all states, as
concernynge the gouernaunce of a Christen comewealthe,
that ther is (as I suppose) no parte of the scripture,
which is not so enpowndyde, furnysshed, and set forthe,
but that euery Christen man, therby may lerne his dewty
to god, hys prynce, and hys nebure, and so consequently
passe thourough the strayte pathe of the whiche
scripture doth testyfye vpo, very fewe can fynde ye
entrye, wherby thorough faythe in the redeptyon of the
worlde thorowe ye bloode of Chr