[6-text p 645] seyst sooth / haue thow the yerde my deere sone and correcte me / for myn inpacience [674] Of pacience comth [¶ how Obedience comth of pacience] Obedience / thurgh which a man is obedient to Crist. and to alle hem to whiche he oghte to been obedient in Crist [675] ¶ And vnderstond wel that obedience is perfit. whan that a man dooth gladly and hastily with good herte entierly al that he sholde do [676] ¶ Obedience generally / is to perfourne the doctrine of god and of his souereyns to whiche / hym oghte to ben obeisaunt in alle rightwisnesse . . . .
¶ Sequitur de Accidia .
[677]
After the synne of Enuye and of Ire. now wol I speken of the synne of Accidie. for Enuye / blyndeth the herte of man and Ire troubleth a man. and Accidie maketh hym heuy thoghtful and wrawful [678] Enuye and Ire maken bitternesse in herte. which bitternesse is mooder of Accidie and bynymeth hym the loue of alle goodnesse. thanne is Accidie / the Angwissh of troubled herte And seint Augustyn seith. / [¶ sanctus Augustinus] it is anoy of goodnesse and ioye of harm [679] ¶ Certes this is a dampnable synne. for it dooth wrong to Ihesu crist. in as muche as it bynymeth the seruice / that men oghte doon to crist with alle diligence / as seith Salomon. / [¶ Salomon] [680] but Accidie / dooth no swich diligence. He dooth alle thyng with anoy / and with wrawnesse / slaknesse / and excusacion / and with ydelnesse / and vnlust. ffor which the book seith ‖. Acursed be he that dooth the seruice of god necligently [681] ¶ Thanne is Accidie / [¶ Nota & caue] enemy / to euerich estaat of man. for certes / the estaat of man / is in .iij. maneres [682] ¶ Outher it is / thestaat of [¶ Of .iij. maneres of estates of man] Innocence. as was thestaat of Adam / biforn that he fil into [¶ Of thestaat/ of Innocence] synne. in which estaat he was holden to wirche / as in heriynge and adowrynge of god [683] ¶ Another estaat. [¶ Of thestaat/ of synful men] is estaat of synful men. in which estaat men been holden
