[6-text p 651] berynge / and in chiere and in dede [738] Eke ther been mo speciale remedies agains Accidie in diuerse werkes / [¶ Of mo speciale remedies agayns Accidie] and in consideracion of the peynes of helle and of the ioyes of heuene / and in trust of the grace of the holy goost that wole yeue hym myght to perfourne his goode entente .
¶ Sequitur de Auaricia .
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After Accidie / wol I speke of Auarice and of Coueitise / of which synne seith seint Paule [¶ Sanctus Paulus] that the roote of alle harmes is Coueitise. Ad Thimotheum .6o. [740] ffor soothly whan the herte of a man. is confounded in it self and troubled and that the soule / hath lost the confort of god. thanne seketh he an ydel solas of worldly thynges /
[741] Auarice / after the descripcion of seint Augustyn. [¶ What Auarice is secundum Augustinum] is likerousnesse in herte to haue erthely thynges. [742] ¶ Som oother folk seyn / that Auarice / is. for to purchacen manye erthely thynges. and no thyng yeue to hem that han nede / [743] ¶ And vnderstoond / that Auarice / ne stant nat oonly in lond ne catel but som|tyme / in science and in glorie. and in euery manere of outrageous thyng is Auarice and Coueitise / [744] ¶ And the difference bitwixe Auarice and Coueitise is this [¶ Of the differ|ence / bitwixe Auarice and Coueitise] ¶ Coueitise / is for to coueite swiche thynges as thou hast nat ‖. And Auarice / is for to withholde and kepe swiche thynges as thou hast with-oute rightful nede [745] ¶ soothly [folio 227b] this Auarice is a synne / that is ful dampnable. for al hooly writ curseth it / and speketh agayns that vice. for it dooth wrong to Ihesu crist. [746] for it bireueth hym the loue that men to hym owen / and turneth it bakward agayns alle reson. [747] and maketh that the Auaricious man / hath moore hope in his catel / than in Ihesu crist and dooth moore obseruance in kepynge of his tresor / than he dooth to seruice of Ihesu crist. [748] And therfore seith
