[6-text p 683] thynken / þat þey myght nat long perseuere in gode|nesse / [1071] the first wanhope comth comth of þat he demeth/ þat he hath synned so gretely and so oft/ and so long lyen in synne / þat he shall nat be saved [1072] Certein ayeinst þat cursed wanhope shold he þynk þat þe passion of Ihesu Crist/ is more strong/ for to vnbynde / þanne synne is strong for to bynde / [1073] Ayeinst the secund wanhope / he shall thynk þat as oft / as he falleth/ he may arise ayein by penitence / and þough he neuere so long haue leye in synne / þe mercy of crist / is all-wey redy to resceyue him to mercy / [1074] Ayeinst þe wanhope þat he demeth/ þat he shold nat long perseuere in godenesse / he shall thynk/ þat þe feblenesse of the devyll may no þyng don / but men woll suffre hym/[1075] And eke he shall have strength of the helpe of god / and of all holy chirche / and of þe proteccion of Aungels / yf hym list/
[1076] Than shull men vnderstonde what is þe fruyt of penaunce and after the worde of Ihesu Crist/ it is the endeles blysse of heven / [1077] þe ioye hath no contraritee of woo ne greuaunce / þere all harmes ben passed of this present lyf / þere as is the sekirnesse / from the pyne of hell/ there as is the blisfull companye / þat reioysen hem euermoo euerycch of others ioye [1078] there as the bodye of man þat whilom was foule and derk/ is more clere þanne þe sonne / þere as þe body þat whilom was seke frele and feble and mortall/ is ymmortall/ and so strong/ and so hole / þat þere may no thing appeire it/ [1079] there as ne is neither hunger thirst ne colde / But euery soule replenysshed with the sight of þe perfite knowyng of god [1080] This blisfull/ regne mow men purchace by pouertee espirituell/ and þe glorie by lowe|nesse the plentee of Ioye / by hunger and therst/ and þe rest by trauaill/ and the lyf by deth and mortificacion of synne ./.
