Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

Old English homilies and homiletic treatises (Sawles warde, and Pe wohunge of Ure Lauerd: Ureisuns of Ure Louerd and of Ure Lefdi, &c.) of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / edited from mss. in the British Museum, Lambeth, and Bodleian Libraries ; with introd., translation, and notes, by Richard Morris.

godes sune to monnesce men ibroht. and on þisse deie iweorden ileafulle men godes and swa se crist cweð. Ic cweðe ȝe beoð godes bern þa icorene men beoð godes bern; na icunðliche; ac þurh þes halȝan gastes ȝife. And [? An.] god is icundeliche on þreom. Hadan feder. and sune. þet is his wisdom. and þe halȝe gast; þe þet is heore beire wille. Heore cunde is unto-deledlich efer [MS. efter.] wuniende on ane godnesse. þe ilca cweð. bi his icorene ȝe beoð godes. Þuruh cristes menniscnesse men weren alesde from deofles ðeowdome. and þurh þes halȝe gastes to-cume mennen saule were ibroht to gode. Crist underfenc meniscnesse on his to-cume. and men underfengen god; þurh þes halȝan gastes isundunge. þe mon þet nafð godes gast on him nis he na godes. Elches monnes weorc cuðan hwilc gast hine wissað. Godes gast wissað efre to haliȝnesse. and to godnesse. Deofles gast wissað to sunnan; and to mandeden. þe halȝa gast bicom twa ofer þa apostlas. Crist ableow þana [sic.] halȝa gast ofer þa apostlas; er his upst[i]ȝe þus cweðinde onfoð haline gast. eft on þisse deie he sende þe almihtin feder and þe sune heore [folio 36b] beire gast to þam apostli; þa ȝet wuniende on þissere weorlde. þe helende ableu his gast on his apostlas for ðere itacnunge. þet heo and alle cristen men scullan lufian heore nehstan; al swa he heom er bihet þene ilca gast of heofne. forðon þet we sculen lufian god ofer alle oðer þing. An is þe halie gast þah þet he twa bicome ofer þa apostlas. Al swa ec is an lufe; and twa biboden. þet we sculen lufian god; and. Men. Ac we sculen leornian on mannen hu we maȝen bicuman to godes lufe. Al swa Iohan þe godspellere cweð. þe þet ne lufeð his broðer þene þet he isihð. hu mei he lufian god þene þet he ne isihð licomliche; we wurðiað þes halȝen gastes to-cume mid loft|songe [? lof-.] seofen daȝes. forðon þet he onlihte ure mod mid seofanfald ȝife. þet is mid wisdom. and anȝite mid iðohte. and streinde mid gode dedan; and trewfestnesse. and he us ifulð mid godes eiȝe. þe þet ðurh gode iearnunge [sic.] bi-cumð to þissan seofænfalden ȝefan of þam [? þan.] halȝan gaste; he haueð alle blisse. Ac þe þet wule to þare blisse bicumen; he scal ileafan on þa halȝa þreomnesse. and on soðre annesse. þet is þe feder. and his sune and heore beira gast heo beoð þreo on hadan and an god unto- [folio 37a] delendlich on
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Old English homilies and homiletic treatises (Sawles warde, and Pe wohunge of Ure Lauerd: Ureisuns of Ure Louerd and of Ure Lefdi, &c.) of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / edited from mss. in the British Museum, Lambeth, and Bodleian Libraries ; with introd., translation, and notes, by Richard Morris.
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Morris, Richard, ed. 1833-1894.
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London :: Pub for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trubner & Co.,
1868.
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Sermons, English (Middle)

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