1 10 160. Wkaf are God's commandments. 



8 true loue, but it commeth meryly and immediately from 



the harte : and if thou loue god entyerlye with thy harte, 



than wylte thou do his commaundementes. Than it wolde 



be vnderstande and knowen whiche be his commande- 



1 2 mentes, that a man may obserue and kepe them. 



160. \ What be goddes connnaundementes. 

 [Foi. 73*.] There be in all .x. commaundementes, the which were 



to long to declare, but they be all concluded and compre- 

 Deut. yi. s. hended in two, that is to say : Diliges dominum deum tuuni 



Lev. XIX. i8. T J o 



4 super omnia : Et proximum tuuvsx sicut te ipsum : Loue thy 

 lorde god aboue al thing, and thy neyghboure as thy-selfe. 

 These be lyghte commaundementes, and nature byndeth 

 a man to fulfyll, obserue, and kepe them, or els he is not 

 8 a naturall man, remembryng what god hath doone for the. 

 Fyrste he hath made the to the symylytude and lykenes 

 of his owne ymage, and hathe gyuen to the in this worlde 

 dyuerse possessions, but specyally he hath redemed thy 

 12 soule vpon the crosse, and suffered great payne and 

 passion and bodelye deathe for thy sake. What loue, 

 what kyndenes was in hym, to doo this for the ? What 

 couldest thou desyre hym to do more for the ? And he 

 God^asks^ ^ 1 6 desyreth nothynge of the agayne, but loue for loue. What 

 can he desyre lesse ? 



love for love. 



161. ^ Howe a man shulde loue god and please hym. 



Surelye a man maye loue god and please hym very many 



wayes : but fyrste and principally, he that wyll loue god, 



[Foi. 74.] 3-"d please hym, he muste doo as it is sayde in Symbalo 



Athanasian 4 Athanasii : Qm'cunqne vult saluus esse, ante omnia opus est 



vt teneat caiholicavn. fidem, Who so euer wyll be saued, 



aboue all thynge he must nedes be stedfast in the faythe 



of holy churche. And accordynge to that, saythe sayncte 



Heb.xi. 6. ^ Paule : Sine fide impossibile est placere deo ; Without faythe 



Seneca. it is impossible to please god. And Seneca sayth : Nichil 



