| | soth haue thou the yerd my dere sone and correcte me for | |
| | myn vnpacience / 600 Of pacience comith obedience thurgh which | |
| | a man is obedyent to Crist and to alle hem to whyche he | |
| | ought to be obedyent in Crist / 601 And vnderstande wel that | |
| | obedyence is parfight whan men do gladly & hastely with | |
| | good herte entierly al that he shold do / 602 Obedyence gene- | |
| | rally is to perfourme the doctryne of god and to his so- | |
| | uereyns to whiche hym ought to be obeyssant in al right- | |
| | wysnes . | |
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| | ¶ Sequitur de Accidia . | |
| 603 | A | Fter the synne of wrath I wil speke of the synne of | |
| | accidye or slouth . For enuye blyndeth the herte of | |
| | man / And Ire troubleth a man / And accidye maketh hym | |
| | heuy thoughtful and wrawe / 604 Enuye and Ire maken bitter | |
| | nes in herte / whiche bitternes is moder of accidye & benymeth | |
| | hym the loue of al goodnes / thenne is accidye the angre of | |
| | a troble herte / And saynt Austyn saith It is annoye of | |
| | goodnes and annoye of harm / 605 Certes this is a dampnable | |
| | synne . For it doth wronge to Ihesu Crist in as muche as | |
| | he benymeth the seruice that men ought to do to Ihesu Crist | |
| | with al diligence As saith Salamon / 606 But accidye doth | |
| | none suche diligence / He doth all with annoye & wrawnes | |
| | Slaknes / excusacion / dulnes & vnlust . For whiche the book | |
| | saith a cursid be he that doth the seruise of god necligently . | |
| | 607 thenne is accidye enemye to euery estate of mā For the estate | |
| | of mā is in iij . maners / Eyther it is estate 608 of Innocence as | |
| | was þe state of adam before or that he fyl in to synne in which | |
| | estate he was holde to worche as in heriing & adouring of god | |
| | 609 Another estate is estate of superfluyte / In whiche estate men | |
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