[6-text p 604] ordre / but alle thynges / been ordeyned and nom|bred /. yet nathelees / they that been dampned / been no thyng in the ordre / ne holden noon ordre /. [219] for the erthe ne shal bere hem no fruyt [220] ¶ ffor as the prophete [¶ Dauid propheta] Dauid seith ¶ god shal destroie the fruyt of the erthe / as fro hem / ne water / ne shal yeve hem no moisture /. ne the Eyr no refresshyng. ne fyr no light [221] ¶ ffor as seith seint Basilie ¶ The brennynge of the fyr of this [¶ Sanctus Basilius] world / shal god yeuen in helle / to hem þat been dampned /. [222] but the light / and the cleernesse / shal be yeuen in heuene to hise children /. right as the goode man / yeueth flessh to hise children and bones to his houndes /. [223] And for they shullen haue noon hope to escape seith seint [¶ Sanctus Iob] Iob atte laste ¶ that ther shal horrour / and grisly drede / dwellen with-outen ende /. [224] Horrour / is alwey drede / of harm that is to come / and this drede shal euere dwelle in the hertes / of hem that been dampned / And therfore / han they lorn al hire hope / for .vij. causes [225] ¶ ffirst. [¶ How the dampned / han lorn al hir hope for .vij. causes] for god [folio 214a] that is hir Iuge / shal be / with-outen mercy to hem /. and they may nat plese hym / ne noon of hise halwes /. ne they / ne may yeue no thyng for hir raunson /. [226] ne they haue no voys / to speke to hym /. ne they may nat fle fro peyne /. ne they haue no goodnesse in hem / that they mowe shewe to deliuere hem fro peyne [227] ¶ And therfore seith Salomon ¶ The wikked man [¶ Salomon] dyeth / and whan he is deed. he shal haue noon hope / to escape fro peyne [228] ¶ Who so thanne / wolde wel vn|derstande the peynes / and bithynke hym weel / that he hath deserued thilke peynes for his synnes / certes / he sholde haue moore talent to siken and to wepe /. than for to syngen and to pleye / [229] ffor as that seith Salomon /. [¶ Idem Salomon] Who so that hadde the science to knowe the peynes that been establissed and ordeyned for synne / he wolde make sorwe / [230] Thilke science / as seith seint Augustyn / [¶ Sanctus Augustinus] maketh a man / to waymenten in his herte
[231] ¶ The fourthe point that oghte maken a man [¶ Of the .iiij.e]
