[6-text p 604] outen ordre / but alle thynges / ben ordeyned & nom|bred / yet nathelees they þat ben dampned / ben no thyng in ordre / ne holden noon ordre / [219] for the erthe ne shal bere hem no fruyt ‖ [220] for as the prophete dauid seith / god shal destroye / the fruyt of the erthe / as fro hem / ne water / ne shal yeue hem no moysture / ne the Eyr no refresshyng ne fyr no light ‖ [221] for as seith Seint Basile ‖ the brennynge of the fyr of this world / shal god yeuen in helle / to hem þat ben dampned / [222] but the light & the cleernesse / shal he yeuen in heuene to hise children / right as the goode man / yeueth flessh to hise children / & bones to hise houndes / [223] and for they shullen haue noon hope to escape / seith Seint Iob / atte laste / þat ther shal horrour & grisly drede dwelle with outen ende // [224] Horrour is alwey drede of harm þat is to come / & this drede shal euere dwelle in the hertes / of hem þat ben dampned / and therfore; han they lorn al hire hope / for .vij. causes ‖ [225] ffirst for god þat is hir Iuge / shal be with oute mercy to hem / ne they may nat plese hym / ne noon of hise halwes / ne they ne may yeue no thyng for hire 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 may shewe / to delyuere hem fro peyne / [227] And therfore seith Salomon ‖ the wikked man dieþ & whan he is deed / he shal haue noon hope / to escape fro peyne [228] ¶ Who so thanne wolde wel vn|derstonde thise peynes & bithynke hym wel / þat he hath disserued thilke peynes for hise synnes / certes he sholde haue moore talent to siken & to wepe / than for to syngen & to pleye ‖ [229] for as þat seith Salomon / who so þat hadde the science to knowe the peynes þat ben establised & ordeyned for synne / he wolde make sorwe / [230] thilke science / as seith Seint Augustyn / maketh a man / to waymente in his herte /
[231] ¶ The .iiije. poynt that [folio 240b] oghte make a man [The .iiij.e mevere to contricioun.]
