The founders of the New Devotion : being the lives of Gerard Groote, Florentius Radewin and their followers . LIFE OF JOHN GRONDE. CHAPTER I it€ Of the first Congregation of Clerks inDeventer (>) HE righteousness of good men, asreason doth dictate, everywheredeserveth due praise. For thosewho lived lives worthy of praiseought not after their death to beU given over to forgetfulness. Thedeeds of such should be held in remembrance ifonly for the consolation of them that survive ; andshould be set up as a pattern to other faithfulpeople. Wherefore it behoves us above all to com-mend those who
The founders of the New Devotion : being the lives of Gerard Groote, Florentius Radewin and their followers . LIFE OF JOHN GRONDE. CHAPTER I it€ Of the first Congregation of Clerks inDeventer (>) HE righteousness of good men, asreason doth dictate, everywheredeserveth due praise. For thosewho lived lives worthy of praiseought not after their death to beU given over to forgetfulness. Thedeeds of such should be held in remembrance ifonly for the consolation of them that survive ; andshould be set up as a pattern to other faithfulpeople. Wherefore it behoves us above all to com-mend those who studied to serve God in humilityand devotion in the House of our reverend FatherFlorentius from the time of the foundation of thatHouse, and remained with all constancy underthe rule of holy obedience with great fervency ofSpirit unto their lives end. Yet I do not purposeto write of the virtues of all of them, a thing whichis by no means possible, but as concerning several 169 JOHN GRONDE of them I desire to record a few things that arewithin mine own knowledge. (2) When I had come to study in Deventer, inthe days of my yo
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