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The Index of Middle English Prose Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2023
Described Hardwick & Luard: iv.499.
[1]
f. 3
Almiʒtty god seiþ in his lawe in þis wise in þe firste epistel of jon þe secounde chapitur whoso seiþ þat he loueþ me and kepiþ nouʒte myn heestes he is a lier and treuthe in nouʒte in hym and as god seiþ þe feend is fader of alle lesynges þerfore leste we bicome þe feendes childeren …
f. 7v
… and his apostels martirs confessors uirgyns and alle oþer holi men and wymmen han tauʒte us trwly to heuene explicit.
‘Alle manere of men schulde holde goddes heestes for wiþouten holdynge of hem may no man be saued and so þe gospelle telliþ how oon axed crist what he schulde do for to comen to heuene and crist badde him ʒif þat he wolde entre into blisse þat he schulde kepe þe comaundementes of god’ (f. 3). Standard Orthodox Exposition of the Ten Commandments. IPMEP 48; Wells Rev. 7:2513–4 [43].
Other texts: See Kk.1.3 [6].
[2]
f. 7v
Pryde wraþþe and enuye ben synnes of þe fende coueytise and auarice ben synnes of þe world glotenye slowth and leccherye ben synnes of þe flesche þese ben þe large weie to helle and many men passen þerbi to helle for rechelesnesse þat þei bisye hem nouʒte to kepe goddes heestes and as worldli thinges …
f. 9
… bot pryueliche moste in oure soule by cautels of þe fende and untruste to god and unwillynge to kepe his heestes.
‘Þe seuene dedely synnes’ (f. 7v). Tripartite text on the sins, commandments, virtues, works of mercy, and gifts of the Holy Ghost. Pride, Wrath, and Envie Synnes of the Fend. Wells Rev. 7:2529 [115]; Jolliffe F.21.7(a) and (b).
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