pysteles; in whom he spekeþ many harde þinges to vnder|stonden, þe whuche vnstabel men & vntauȝt deprafeþ, as þei doþ oþer scriptures, to hure owne dampnacyoun. [verse 17] And þer|fore, my breþeren, seþþe ȝe knowe þese þinges byfore, kepeþ ȝow-selfe, þat ȝe ben noȝt y-lad in þe errour of vn-wyse men, & fallen awey þoroȝ ȝoure owene infirmyte. [verse 18] Bote waxe ȝe in þe knowynge & in þe grace of oure [ȝoure P.] Lord Iesu Crist oure Sauyour; to hym be blysse now & efermore her-aftur. De[o] [deu with u in darker ink on erasure, S.] gracias?
JAMES [S folio 20] [Heading: Jacobus in a later hand on fol. 20, subsequently Ja-cobi on facing pages, with the second stroke of u and the s erased. S.] .
[verse 1] James [C m 1m in an early hand, S.] [P folio 23] þat is a seruaunt of oure Lord & oure God Iesu Crist, to þe twelue kynredes þat beþ in dyspersyon, hele and gretynge. [verse 2] Breþeren, trowe ȝe þat it be eferych gladnesse whan ȝe falleþ in-to dyuerse temptacyons, [verse 3] knowynge þat þe prefynge of ȝoure feiþ worcheþ pacyence. [verse 4] And pacyence haþ a [om. P.] parfyt werk, þat ȝe ben parfyt & hol, faylynge in no þing. [verse 5] And who-efere of ȝou nedeþ wysdom, axe he of God, þat graunteþ eferich man plentyuouslyche and obbraydeþ no man. [verse 6] & axe he in feiþ & trust, doutynge no þing: For he þat douteþ is lyche to þe flod of þe see [an e in the margin, S.] þat is y-mefed & y-boren aboute of þe wynd. [verse 7] And þerfore þilke man ne trowe noȝt þat he schal vnderfonge any þing of God; [verse 8] A man þat is doubel in soule, he is vnstabel in alle his weyes. [verse 9] , [verse 10] And an humel broþer ioye he in hys hyȝenesse, & a ryche man [ryche man repeated in margin, 1st corrector, S.] in his lowenesse: For as þe flour of þe gras he schal passe forþ his weye. [verse 11] For þe sunne haþ y-rysen up wiþ hete, & haþ y-druyed [uyed on erasure, S. ydreyed P.] ·þe heþ; & his flour is y-fallen a-down, & his fayrnesse is y-perysched: so a ryche man schal welewen in his iourneyes. [verse 12] Þat man is y-blessed þat suffreþ temptacyoun: for whanne he is y-prefed, he schal vnderfonge [P folio 23b] a coroune of lyf, þat God haþ byhoten to þilke þat loueþ hym. [verse 13] & no man
