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| I wyl drawe myn swerd in consentyng / 282 For certes right | |||
| as a swerd departeth one in two pecys / right so consenting | |||
| departeth god from man / And thenne wil I sle hym with | |||
| my honde in deth of synne / Thus saith the fende / 283 For certes | |||
| thenne is a man al dede in soule / And thus is synne com- | |||
| plysshid by temptacion / by delyte and by consentyng / . | |||
| And thenne synne is cleped a meruayll / 284 For soth synne | |||
| is in two maners / eyther it is venial or dedely synne Sothly | |||
| whan a man loueth ony creature more than Ihesu Crist our | |||
| creatour thenne is hit dedely synne / And venyal synne yf | |||
| a man loue Ihesu Crist lesse than hym ought / 285 Forsothe the | |||
| dede of this venyal synne is ful perilous for hit amenusith | |||
| the loue that men shold haue to god more & more / 286 And | |||
| therfore yf a man charge more hym self with many suche | |||
| venyal synnes / Certes but yf so be that he discharge of hem | |||
| by shryfte / they may wel lightly amenuse in hym al the loue | |||
| that he hath to Ihesu Crist 287 And in this wyse skyppeth ve | |||
| nyal synne in to dedely synne / For certes the more that a | |||
| man chargith his sowle with venyal synnys the more is he | |||
| inclined to dedely synne / 288 And therfore leet vs not be ne | |||
| cligent in dischargyng vs of venyal synne . For the pro- | |||
| uerbe saith many smale makyth a greet / . 289 And herkene | |||
| thys ensample / a grete wawe of the see comyth somtyme | |||
| with so greet a violence that it drenschith the ship And | |||
| the same harme do somtyme the smale dropes of water / that | |||
| entre thurgh a lityl creuys in the thurrok and in the bottom | |||
| of the shipp yf men be so negligent that they discharge hem | |||
| not by tyme / 290 And therfore al though ther be difference | |||
| betwene thyse two causes of drenchyng / yet algates the | |||