inrising

Updated: May 21, 2025

And therefore holy men, when they are stirred to any unlawful thing, by inrising of any foul thought, as oft they set before their mind the pains that are to come; and so they slaken their temptation in the beginning, ere it rise to any foul delight in their soul.

- The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521