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Fri Aug 28 19:14:07 CEST 2009

Erve all things for Christ's sake and imitate Christ. False, therefore,
is the judgement whereby they condemn monastic service as godless,
whereas it is most Christian. For the monks have not fallen from God's
grace, as the Jews of whom St. Paul speaks, Gal. 5:4, when they still
sought justification by the law of Moses; but the monks endeavor to live
more nearly to the Gospel, that theymay merit eternal life. Therefore,
the allegations here made against monasticism are impious. Moreover, the
malicious charge that is still further added, that those in religious
orders claim to be in a state of perfection, has never been heard of by
them; for those in these orders claim not for themselves a state of
perfection, but only a state in which to acquire perfection--because
their regulations are instruments of perfection, and not perfection
itself. In this manner Gerson must be received, who does not deny that
religious orders are states wherein to acquire perfection as he declares
in his treatises, "Against the Proprietors of the Rule of St.
Augustine", "Of Evangelical Counsels", "Of Perfection of Heart", and in
other places. For this reason the princes and cities should be
admonished to strive rather for the reformation of the monasteries by
their legitimate superiors than for their subversion--rather for the
godly improvement of the monks than that they be abolished; as their
most religious ancestors, most Christian princes, have done. But if they
will not believe holy and most religious fathers defending monasti
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