HERE BEGINNETH THE ELEVENTH CHAPTER
That a man should weigh each thought and each stirring after
that it is, and always eschew recklessness in venial
sin.
I SAY not this for that I trow that thou, or any other such as I speak of, be
guilty and cumbered with any such sins; but for that I would that thou weighest
each thought and each stirring after that it is, and for I would that thou
travailedst busily to destroy the first stirring and thought of these things
that thou mayest thus sin in. For one thing I tell thee; that who weigheth not,
or setteth little by, the first thought--yea, although it be no sin unto
him--that he, whosoever that he be, shall not eschew recklessness in venial
sin. Venial sin shall no man utterly eschew in this deadly life. But
recklessness in venial sin should always be eschewed of all the true disciples
of perfection; and else I have no wonder though they soon sin deadly.