A boke newly translated out of Latyn in to Englisshe, called The folowing of Christe with the Golden epistel of saynt Barnard.

❧Of the sufferynge of other mennes defautes. The .xvi. chapiter.

SVche defautes as we can nat amēde in our selfe nor in other / we muste paciently suffre tyll our lorde of his goodnes wyll otherwyse dispose. And we shal thynke that happe∣ly it is so best for to be for prouyng of our pacyence: without whiche our merytes are but lytell to be pondred / Neuertheles thou shalte praye hertely for suche impe∣dimentes that our lorde of his great mer¦cy and goodnes vouchesaue to helpe vs that we may pacyently bere thē. If thou admonysshe any persone ones or twyse & he wyll nat take it: stryue nat ouermoch with hym but cōmytte al to god that his wyll be done and his honoure in all his seruauntes / for he can well by his good∣nes tourne euyl in to good: studye alway that thou be pacyēt in suffrynge al other mēnes defaut{is} for thou haste many thin¦ges

in the that other do suffre of the / and if thou cane nat make thy selfe to be as thou woldest / howe mayste thou thā loke to haue an other to be ordred in all thyn∣ges after thy wyl. we wolde gladly haue other perfite / but we wyl nat amende our owne defautes / we wolde y^e other shulde be straytely corrected for theyre offences but we wyll nat be corrected. It mynsly∣keth vs that other haue lybertie: but we wyll nat be denyed of that we aske. we wolde also that other shuld be restrayned accordynge to the statutes / but we in no wyse wyll be restrayned. Thus it appe∣reth euydently that we seldome pondre our neyghbours as we do our selfe: if all men were perfyte what had we than to suffre of our neygbours for god / therfore god hath so ordeyned that one of vs shall lerne to bere anothers burden / for in this worlde no man is without defaute: no man without a burden / no man suffy∣cyent to hym selfe / nor no man wyse ynoughe of hym selfe / wherfore it beho∣ueth eche one of vs to bere the burden of other / to comforte other / to helpe other / to enforme other / and to instructe and ad¦monysshe other in all charite: who is of

moste vertue appereth best in tyme of ad¦uersite. Occasiōs make nat a man frayle but they shewe openly what he is.