A   Then answered Eliphas þe; Themanyte and said vnto him: Yf we beginne to comm&ebar; with the peraduenture thou wilt be dyscontent, but who can withhold him selfe from speakinge? Behold, thou hast bene a teacher of manye, and hast comforted the wery handes.

Thy wordes haue set vp those that were fallen, thou haste refreshed the weake knees. B   But nowe that the plage is come vpon the thou shrenkest awaye: now that it hath touched thy self, thou arte faynt harted. Is not this thy feare, thy stedfastnesse, thy pacience, and the perfectnesse of thy wayes? Consydre (I praye the) whoeuer peryshed beynge an innocent? Or, wh&ebar; were the godly destroied? As I haue sene them that plowe vanity and sowe malicie reape the same. With the blast of God dyd they perysh, ∧ with the breth of his anger c&obar;sumed they awaye. The05Q0318 roarynge of the lyon, the voyce of the lyonesse, and the teeth of the lyons whelpes are brok&ebar; The lyon perissheth, for lacke of praye ∧ the lyons whelpes are scatered abrode.

C   And vnto me was the worde hydde, and myne eare hathe receyued a lytell therof. In the phantasyes and thoughtes of the vysy&obar;s of the nyght, wh&ebar; slepe cometh on men: feare came vp&obar; me and drede ∧ made my bones to shake. And when the wynd passed by before my presence it made the heares of my flesshe stande vp. He stode there and I knew not his face, an ymage there was before me ∧ there was stylnes, so that I heard thys voyce.

05Q0319Shall man be moare iust then God? Or shall m&abar; be purer th&ebar; this maker? B   05Q0320Behold there is no trust to his serua&ubar;tes, and in his aungelles hath he founde frowardnes. How moche moare in them that dwell in houses of claye whose foundacion is but earth, which shalbe consumed by the Moth. They shalbe smytten from þe; mornynge vnto the euenyng yee they shall perysh euerlastynglye, and no m&abar; thincke theron. Is not their05Q0321 dignitie taken awaye with them, they shall dye and not in wysdome.

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