¶ The firſte partie hath fiue chapitres touchinge contemplacioun for Moneday and for the tyme of Aduent / as it foloweth after.
¶Capm.jm.
¶ A deuoute Meditacioun of the grete counſeile in
heuene for the reſtorynge of man and his ſauacioun.
After the tyme that man was exiled oute of the hiȝe Citee of heuene by the riȝtwis dome of all myȝty god / ſouereyne kyng thereof / for his treſpas and his ſynne· and ſo wrecchedly lay in preſoun / and was holden in the bondes of that tyraunt the deuel of helle / that none myȝte come aȝen to that bleſſed citee the ſpace of fyue thowſand ȝere and more: alle the bleſſid ſpirites of heuene deſirynge the reſtorynge of her companye / that was fallen doun with lucifer / hadden grete compaſſioun of ſo longe meſchief of man that was made to here reſtorynge / and preiden often for his reſtorynge / but ſpecially and with more inſtaunce