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| 157 The fourthe poynt that a man ought to make contri | |||
| cion fore / is the sorouful Remembraunce of the good | |||
| that he hath lefte to do here in erthe and eke the good | |||
| that he hath lorn / 158 Sothly the good werkis that he hath | |||
| lefte / eyther they be the good werkis that he wrought | |||
| er he fyll in to dedely synne / or ellis the good werkis | |||
| that he wrought whyle he lay in dedely synne / 159 Sothly | |||
| the good that he dyde beforn that he fyl in dedely synne | |||
| ben al mortyfyed astoned and dulled by the eft | |||
| synnyng / . 160 The other werkes that he wrought whyle | |||
| he lay in synne ben vtterly dede as to the lyf perdurable | |||
| in heuen / . 161 Than thilke good werkes that ben morty- | |||
| fyed by efte synnyng whyche good werkes he dyde | |||
| whyles he was in charyte mowe neuer quycken ayen | |||
| wythoute verey restreynt and wythdrawyng the | |||
| strenges of mans corage and the meuynges in his | |||
| herte in suche manere as they ne skyppe out by anger | |||
| ne by Ire / . 162 And therof sayth god by the mouth of | |||
| Ezechiel / That yf the rightful man retorne agayn | |||
| from his ryghtwysnes and to wirche wickednes . / | |||
| shal he lyuen / nay / . 163 For alle the good werkis that | |||
| he hath wrought shulle neuer be in Remembraunce / . | |||
| For he shal dye in his synne / 164 And vpon that chap- | |||
| pytre sayth Seynt Gregory thus that we shal vnder- | |||
| stande pryncypally 165 that whan we do dedely synne it is | |||
| nought . Neyther for to drawe in to memorye the good | |||
| werkes that we haue wrought byforn . 166 For certes in the | |||