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A fourteenth century English Biblical version, edited by Anna C. Paues ...

þanne be ȝe spousebrekeres & noȝt sones. [verse 9] Furþermore, we haden fadres þat weren techeres of oure flesch, & we wor|schupeden hem: muche more we schulleþ be buxom to þe Fader of spirytes, & we schulleþ lyfen. [verse 10] And þei wiþ-ynne a fewe dayes enformeden ous aftur hure owne wylle; bote þes to þat þing þat is profytabel, in receyfynge his holynesse. [verse 11] Bote eferyche techynge in þis tyme ne semeþ noȝt to ben of ioye, bote of deþ. Bote afterward he schal ȝelde to þilke þat han wel y-lerned þe moste pesful fruyt of ryȝtfulnesse. [verse 12] Wherfore rereþ up ȝoure remysse hondes, & ȝowre knees þat [verse 13] beþ dissolut; & makeþ efene þe goynges to ȝoure fet, þat no man erre haltynge, bote be raþer y-heled. [verse 14] & folewe ȝe pes with alle men, & holynesse wiþouten whom no man schal y-seo God. [verse 15] And loke ȝe, þat no man lakke þe grace of God; ne þat no rote of bytternesse bourgenynge upward latte no [verse 16] man, þoroȝ þe whuche many men ben defouled; ne þat no man be [ben...man be on erasure, S.] [P folio 86] a lechour, & wycked as Esau, þat for mete solde his herytage. [verse 17] For wyte ȝe wel, þat whanne he desyred to hafe an-heryted þe blessynge, he was reprefed, for he ne fonde no place of penaunce, þouȝ þat he souȝte it wiþ teres. [verse 18] For ȝe ne beþ noȝt y-come to þe fuyr, þat me may holden & neyȝlechen [verse 19] þer-to [S folio 74b] , ne to þe whyrlewynd & to tempest, ne to þe sown of a trumpe, ne to þe voys of wordes, whom þilke þat herde excuseden hem-selfe, for þat þe voys ne schulde noȝt ben [verse 20] y-mad to hem: for þey ne beren noȝt þat þat was y-seyd, & ȝef a best hade y-touched þe hul, he schulde [he schulde twice, the first expunged. S.] haue ben [verse 21] y-stoned; & so dredful it was þat was y-seye, for Moyses seyde, Ich am a-gast & quakynge for drede. [verse 22] Bote ȝe beþ y-come to þe hul of Syon, & to þe hefenlyche Ierusalem þat is þe cyte of þe lyfynge God, & to þe cumpany of many [verse 23] þousandes of aungeles, & to þe churche of primytyfes þat beþ y-wryten to-gedere in hefenes, & to þe domesman of alle [verse 24] spyrytes & of ryȝtful men & of parfyt men, & to þe medyatour of a newe testement, Iesus, & to þe schedynge of his blod þat spak betere þan Abel. [verse 25] & loke ȝe þat ȝe ne refuse noȝt hym þat spekeþ. For ȝef þei ne [om. P.] a-scaped noȝt [P folio 86b] , þat refuseden
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