Prologue

THE man who would live in the most perfect state of Holy Church must be a good and zealous man ; an inward and ghostly man ; an uplifted and God-seeing man ; and an outflowing man to all in common. Whenever these four things are together in a man, then his state is perfect ; and through the increase of grace he shall continually grow and progress in all virtues, and in the knowledge of truth, before God and before all men.