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| to do foule thing / Certis hym ought not to be ashamed | |||
| to do feir thingis and good thyngis / And that is con- | |||
| fessyons / 988 A man shold thynke that god woot al his | |||
| thoughtis and his werkis and to hym may no thing be | |||
| hyd ne couerid / 989 Men shold eke remembre hem of the shame | |||
| that is to come at the day of dome to hem / that be not peny- | |||
| tent in this present lif . 990 For al the creaturis in heuene and | |||
| in erthe and in helle shul see appertly al that they hiden in | |||
| this world / 991 Now for to speke of hem that ben so necligent | |||
| and slowe to shriue hem / it stondeth in two maners / 992 That | |||
| one is that he hopeth to liue longe / and forto purchace muche | |||
| riches for his delyte / And thenne wil he shriue hym as he | |||
| saith / he may as hym semeth tymely ynow come to shrifte | |||
| 993 Another is the surquydrye that he hath in Cristes mercy . | |||
| 994 And ayenst the first he shal thynke that our lyf is in no | |||
| sikernes / And eke that alle the riches of the world is in | |||
| auenture & passyng as a shadowe on a wal / 995 And as saith | |||
| seint Gregore That it apperteyneth to the grete rightwys | |||
| nesse of god / that neuer shal the peyne stynte of them that | |||
| neuer wold withdrawe hem from synne her thankis but euer | |||
| contynued in synne / For that perpetuel will to do synne . | |||
| shal they haue perpetuel peyne / 996 Wanhope is in two maners | |||
| The first wanhope is in the mercy of god / That other is | |||
| that they thinke that they may not longe perseuere in good- | |||
| nes / 997 The first wanhope cometh of that he demeth that he hath | |||
| synned so gretly / so ofte / and so longe leyn in synne that he | |||
| shal not be saued / 998 Certis ayenst þt cursid wanhope he sholde | |||
| thinke that the passion of Ihesu is more stronge to vnbynde | |||
| than synne is to bynde / 999 And ayenst the seconde wanhope | |||