Excerpt from The Spiritual Ascent: A Devotional Treatise
1. I will now recount briefly the virtues of that devout and learned man Gerard of Zutphen, and as a good memorial of his life will set his example and his writings before the generations that are yet to be, as their pattern; for he hath deserved above all others to be named amongst our first brothers and those that were zealous for the law of God. Moreover, though he lived for but a Short while, yet he left to us most grateful memorials of doctrine, for he was very studious in Holy Scripture and drew, even from dark sentences, divers kinds of aromatic wisdom, having virtue to quell the diseases of vice and to heal the languors of the soul. These do most chiefly appear in two little books that he put forth, of which the one beginneth A Certain Man, and the other is entitled Blessed is the Man. Now from his infancy and the years of his boyhood he was inclined toward learning, quick of genius, eager toward the liberal arts, and heartily averse from worldy business and from everything that might hinder the pursuit of wisdom.
2. And when he grew up to be a youth of good disposition he went to foreign schools to be the better instructed, and there he strove with all his might to be constant in attendance, to rise up early in the morning and to hasten in good time to hear the lectures.
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