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Secondly, of the work and knowledge of grace. · 85.

And as the natural spirit taketh its object in images and forms that are created, when a poor man is empty of all fallible accident he has no impediment in his natural perception. For all that hindereth a man in understanding, whether natural or divine, is a fallible accident, and when a man is empty of this he hath a pure understanding of all truths, whether natural or divine, and from this position he can take out the best in each.