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Of the articles of trouth
Here now of the articles of our trouth that we al traist inne,And the seuen sacramentȝ that soccours vs of synne.
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That is the Fader and the Sone and the Haligast;
None is other of this persones thre,
Bot all are on God in [the] trinite.
Thes thre are on God and on verray nature,
That made first of riȝt noȝt al maner creature.
We trowe in haly kirk and haly mannes dedes,
That God ay with his grace thaim strenghtes wel and spedes
In trouth and sacramentȝ and dedes of charite,
Thurgh whilk to the repentant forgifnes of synne sal be.
He that trowes noȝt as hali kirk is in dedly synne,
And mede in heuen in that state may he neuer wynne.
At day of dome sal al mankynd vprise,
For to take ay-lastand dome on many diuers wise:
The gode sal go to heuen to ay-lastand blis,
And the wikkid to helle-fire that ay-lastand is.
The aghtend article is of Cristes manhede,
How Mary conceyued him in clen maydenhede;
When the aungel Gabriel come and gret hir with gode,
The haligast made a body of hir clennest blode
And put a saul into hit that al wysdam can;
Then God the Sone toke that and become man.
The neghend is that he of Maiden Mary was born,
And no thing of hir maydenhede therfor was lorn.
The tend is that he suffred paynes wilfully,
Al to ded opon the crois and biryng of body.
The elleuend [is] that Crist in saule went doun to hell
And toke out al his awen chosen that with him suld dwell.
The twelft is that he rose fro dede on the thrid day
And apperyd qwik in flesch with many tokens verray.
The thrittend is that he stegh vp hegh into heuen,
Ther he sittes in manhed with his fader euen.
The fourtend is that he sal come vpon domesday
And gyue riȝtwis dome to qwik and dede, that sal last ay.
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