Wycliffe (Early) [1850], THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, WITH THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS, IN THE EARLIEST ENGLISH VERSIONS MADE FROM THE LATIN VULGATE BY JOHN WYCLIFFE AND HIS FOLLOWERS: Edited by THE REV. JOSIAH FORSHALL, F.R.S. etc. Late Fellow of Exeter College, and SIR FREDERIC MADDEN, K.H. F.R.S. etc. Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD) [word count] [B02010].
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CAP. XV.
1 Thou forsothe, oure God, sweete, and
verre, and pacient, and in mercy disposende
alle thingis.
2 Forsothe if wee synnen,
thine wee ben, witende thi mykilnesse;
and if wee synnen not, wee witen,
for anent thee wee ben. countid.
3 Forsothe
to han knowen thee, is ful endid
ri&yogh;twisnesse; and to witen ri&yogh;twisnesse
and thi vertu, roote is of vndeadlynesse.
4 Forsothe not in to errour inladde vs the
oute thenking of the euele craft of men,
ne the shadewe of peynting trauaile
withoute frut, the grauen licnesse bi dyuers
coloures;
5 whos si&yogh;te to the vnwise
-- --
&yogh;yueth coueiting, and looueth the licnesse
of the deade ymage withoute soule.
6 The
looueres of euelis ben wrthi deth, that
hope han in suche thingus; and that don
hem, and that loouen, and that herien.
7 But and the crockere, the nesshe erthe
threstende, trauailously maketh to oure
vses eche vessel; and of the same clei
he made that ben clene vesselis in to vse,
and also that to them ben contrarious;
forsothe of these vesselis what is the vse,
domesman is the crockere.
8 And with
veyn trauaile god he maketh of the same
cley, he that a litil biforn of erthe was
mad; and aftir a litil he ledith hymselfe
whennes he is taken, a&yogh;een askid
the dette of the soule that he hadde.
9 But and ther is cure to hym, not for
he is to trauailen, ne for his lif is short,
but that me spute with gold smythis,
and siluer smythis; but and metal makeres
he folewith, and glorie he berth
biforn; for thingus ouervoide he maketh.
10 Asken forsothe is the herte of
hym, and erthe ouervoide the hope of
hym, and foulere than cley the lif of
hym.
11 For he kne&yogh; not that made hym,
and that enspirede to hym a soule; and
looueth that he wro&yogh;te; and that ble&yogh;
in to hym a lifli spirit.
12 But thei eymeden
a pleiyng place to ben the lif of
hem, and the conuersacioun of lif mad
to wynnyng, and to bihouen also on eche
side, of euel to purchasen.
13 This forsothe
wot hymself ouer alle men to trespassen,
that of the mater of erthe britel vesselis
and grauen maketh.
14 Forsothe alle the
vnwise men and vnsely ouer maner of
ther soule ben proude, enemys of thi
puple, and mysseiende to it;
15 for alle the
maumetis of naciouns godis thei eymeden,
to the whiche nouther si&yogh;te of e&yogh;en
is to seen, ne nose therlis to parceyue
-- --
spirit, ne eres to heren, ne fingris of
hondis to gropen, but and the feet of
hem slowe to gon.
16 A man forsothe made
them, and that the spirit borewide, he
feynede them; no man forsothe mai
maken a god lic to hym.
17 Whan forsothe
he be deadli, the deade he makith
with wicke hondis; betere forsothe is he
than these, that he herieth; for he forsothe
liuede, whan he was deadli, thei
forsothe neuere.
18 But and thei most
wrecchid herien bestes; witles forsothe,
comparisouned to these, ben wers than
tho.
19 But neither with si&yogh;te any thing of
these bestes mai beholden goode thyngis;
forsothe they fledden the preisyng of
God, and the blessing of hym.
Wycliffe (Early) [1850], THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, WITH THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS, IN THE EARLIEST ENGLISH VERSIONS MADE FROM THE LATIN VULGATE BY JOHN WYCLIFFE AND HIS FOLLOWERS: Edited by THE REV. JOSIAH FORSHALL, F.R.S. etc. Late Fellow of Exeter College, and SIR FREDERIC MADDEN, K.H. F.R.S. etc. Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD) [word count] [B02010].
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