The Lay Folks' Catechism, or the English and Latin versions of Archbishop Thoresby's Instruction for the People Together with a Wycliffite adaptation of the same, and the corresponding canons of the council of Lambeth. With introduction, notes, glossary, and index, by the late Thomas Frederick Simmons ... and Henry Edward Nolloth |
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he made skylful creaturis as angelys and man
of wit and of wisdom to know god almyȝty.
and thorwȝ his knowynge loue hym and serue hym
and so come to þat blysse / þat þey were made to.
This maner of knowynge had oure former faderys
in þe stat of innocence. þat þey were mad yn.
þat we schuld haue had ; yf þey had not synned.
But not so-mokyl as holy sowlys haue now in heuen.
but mochyl more þen any man has now in erthe.
For oure former faderis synned says þe prophete.
and we bere þe wykkydnesse of þair mysdedys.
of wit and of wisdom to know god almyȝty.
and thorwȝ his knowynge loue hym and serue hym
and so come to þat blysse / þat þey were made to.
This maner of knowynge had oure former faderys
in þe stat of innocence. þat þey were mad yn.
þat we schuld haue had ; yf þey had not synned.
But not so-mokyl as holy sowlys haue now in heuen.
but mochyl more þen any man has now in erthe.
For oure former faderis synned says þe prophete.
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