162. Of love to ones neighbour. 1 1 1 



relinet, qui fidem perdidit : There abydeth no goodneS in 

 hym, that hath loste his faythe. And soo thou mayste 

 12 well perceyue, that thou canst not loue nor please god, 

 without perfyte fayth. And ferther-more thou mayste not 

 presume to study, nor to argue thy faithe by reason. For 

 saynte Gregory saythe : Fides non habet meritum, vhi humana Gregory; xi. 



Homil. in 



10 ratio prebet experimentum : Faythe hath no meryte, where ^vang. u. 



26. 

 as mannes reasone proueth the same. This faythe is a 



prj-ncypall sygne, that thou loueste god. Also thy good 



dedes, and thy warkes, is a good sygne, that thou loueste 



20 god. For saynt Iherome saythe : Vnusquisque, cuius opera Jerome. 

 facit, eius filius appellatur : whose warkes euery man dothe, 

 his son or seruaunt he is called. And sayncte Bernarde Bernard, 

 saythe, Efficatior est vox operis, qmm vox sermonis : The 



24 dedes and the warkes of a man is more euydent profe, [FoI. 74*.] 

 than his wordes. The fulfyllynge of the .vii. workes of Seven works 



of mercy. 



mercye is an other specyall sygne, that thou louest god : 

 and many mo there be, whiche were to longe to reherse 

 28 them all. 



162. ^ Howe a man slmlde loue Ms neyg-hbour. 



Thou must loue thy neyghboure as thy-selfe, wherin Loveofour 

 thou shalt please god specially : for if thou loue thy °^'^'''^"" 

 neyghbour as thy-selfe, it foloweth by reason, that 



4 thou shalte do nothyng to hym, but suche as thou 

 woldest shulde be done to the. And that is to 

 presume, that thou woldest not haue any hurte of thy 

 body, nor of thy goodes, done vnto the, and lykewyse 



8 thou shuldest none do vnto hym. And also if thou 

 woldest haue any goodnes done vnto the, eyther in thy 

 bodye, or in thy mouable goodes, lykewyse shuldest thou 

 do vnto thy neyghbour, if it lye in thye power, accordynge 

 1 2 to the sayinge of saynte Gregorye, Nee deus sine proximo, Gregory. 

 nee proximus vere diligiiur sine deo : Thou canste not loue 

 god, with-out thou loue thy neyghbour, nor thou canst not 



