Mayster was it a thynge resonable that god the fader gaue so noble thynge as is the sone for to by agayne so caytyf a thynge as is the man My chylde in that vs sheweth god the father the grete and abuÌ„daunt loue that he hath vnto creature humayne ¶ Mayster syth that god hath sent downe here alowe his sonne by so grete charyte and for to redeme the humaynes wherfore dyd men to hym so moche of payne My chylde Iudas hym betrayed by couetyse Pylate him coÌ„deÌ„pnyd for drede to lese his offyce the Iewes him put to deth by enuy ¶ Maister wherfore dyed Ihesu cryste on the tree of the crosse My chylde for as Adam synned by the tree of lyfe Also god hym wolde bye agayne by the tree of the crosse thou sholdest knowe that by the foure partyes of the crosse the which sheweth all the worlde it is agayne shewed vnto vs that the dethe of Iesu cryst was suffycyent for to bye not onely nature humayne but also all the vnyuersall worlde if it had be loste ¶ Mayster how longe abode Ihesu cryste in the erthe deed My chylde he there abode .xl. houres And whan we say that he arose the thyrde day that in thre dayes is nor .xl. houres thou sholdest vnderstande that he dyed the fryday at the houre of noone and all the saterdaye he was deed in the holy sepulcre the whiche is the seconde day and the sonday after he arose ryght erly and for as moche as the course of nature is renewed at mydnyght and the daye in takynge one partye of the day for all the day entyer ¶ Mayster whyther yede the soule of Ihesu cryst whan he was deed My chylde he yede in to glory towarde god the fader in yeldynge vnto hym thankes and praysynges in demaundynge hym the holy soules the whiche he had redemed by the meryte of his holy passyon the whiche thynge god hym graunted Than opened the soule of Ihesu cryst the whiche was coniuncte with the deite the gates of paradys the whiche had ben shyt by longetyme vnto all humayne lygnage and the saterday about the houre of mydnyght he descended in to hell and brake the gates yede to vysyte his good frendes That is to vnderstande the soules of the holy auncyent fathers the whiche greatly hym desyred and theym delyuered frome the pryson of the lymbe with all the holy soules the which haue meryted paradys by their holy werkes and this fayre company mounted in to heuen and theym presentyd vnto god the father the whiche them receyued benygnely and them putteth in to the realme of paradise in the places and syeges that the cursed Aungelles loste by theyr pryde And he delyuered not the soules of the damned as Iudas and of the cursyd ryche man dyues and of many other but theym he lefte in hell in payne and in turment with all the deuylles without gyuynge them ony comforte where they ben yet and shal be for euer And on the soÌ„day before the sonne rysynge returnyd the soule vnto the body of Ihesus that lay in the Sepulcre and rose from dethe vnto lyfe ¶ Mayster wherfore arose not he as soone as he was deed My chylde for a man had lytell presumed that he had ben deed and he wolde begyn for to renewe the worlde on the Sonday by his resurreccyon For at suche an houre all the worlde began to be ¶ Mayster where was he after his â—esurreccyon forty dayes before his ascencyon My chylde he was in Paradys terrester with Helyas and Enoch in enstructynge theym yâ— which was done as whan he appered ¶ Mayster how many tymes apered he My chylde he appered fyrst vnto Ioseph of barmathye yâ— had buryed hym the whiche for so doynge was put in pryson After vnto his mother after to the blessyd Mawdeleyne after vnto the .ij. pylgrymes comynge from the holy sepulcre after to saynt Iames the whiche wolde not ete tyll that he had seen hym After vnto saynt Peter after to the two pylgrymes the whiche went to the castell of malux after he appered vnto his dyscyples the gates shytte after vnto saynt Thomas whan he put his hande in the syde of our lorde Ihesu cryste after vnto his dyscyples in the see of Tyberyon and so my chylde thou shold vnderstaÌ„de that our lorde Ihesu cryst appered .xij. tymes before that he ascendid in to heueÌ„ ¶ Mayster who asceÌ„dyd in to heuen with hym My chylde the Soules of the blessyd the whiche than by theyr merytes were saued and also grete multytude of aungelles of heuen the which hym accompanyed in syngynge melodyously yeldynge thankes vnto god ¶ Mayster wherefore abode he .xl. dayes to mounte in to heuen after that he was rysen My chylde for yâ— that he gaue grete payne .xl. houres whan he abode in the erth vnto his frendes dyscyples wherfore he wolde coÌ„forte them .xl. dayes that is one day for euery houre in tokenynge that for payne he gyueth greate Ioye also he dyd it for to conferme them in the holy faythe as saynt Thomas other vnto whom he apperyd vysybly ¶ Mayster what is that to say that the sone is sette on the right hande of his father My chylde it is to saye that the humanyte is in glory with the dyuynyte ¶ Mayster in what maner and forme ascendyd Ihesu cryste in to heuen My chylde he styed in to heuen in suche fourme and maner as whan he hym transfygured before some of his dyscyples in the mountayne of Tabor that is to vnderstande that he had the armes stretched lyfte vp in heyght and his face shynynge as the sonne And his vestemeÌ„tes were whyte as snowe and a fayre and clere clowde descendynge from heuen it closed rouÌ„de about hym and so mountyd in to heuen in suche wyse that they lost the syght corporall of hym ¶ Mayster wherfore is the sacrament of the awter made of breed and of wyne My chylde for as the grayne of the corne hath ben beten and flayled and had the sede clouen In lykewyse the precyous body of Ihesus was beten scourged and had the syde opened out of the whiche Issued blode and water wherfore men put water vnto the sayd sacrament And as the wyne lepeth from the grape by force of the wryngyuge in the pressour In lykewyse the precyous blode of Iesus lepte from his precyous body on the pressour of the crosse and it was not establysshed of the flesshe nor of the bloode for a man may horrour to drynke blode and to ete flesshe but it was establysshed of breed and wyne that is the moost comune refeccyon that is and also the breed and the wyne ben the moost comune and the moost profytable for to nourysshe the body In lykewyse the sacramente of the awter is the mooste commune and the moost profytable refeccyon for to nourysshe the soule ¶ Mayster howe shall we vnderstande that hit is the holy bodye of Ihesu cryste and his precyouse bloode vnder the
proue them as he dyd Iob whan he suffred that the deuyll hym dyd so many of ylles and of tourmentes for to preue hym in his grete pacyeÌ„ce for without the permyssyon of god they haue noo puyssaunce but ben as the hange man the which without the byddynge of the Iuge may not hange nor bete ony euyll doer wherfore my chylde thou sholdest retourne the vnto god and vnto the sayntes and to lyue holyly as sayth the psalmyst Non timebis amore nocturno That is to say thou shalt not drede of those folysshe vysyons by nyght For they be not but Illusyons made by the ennemye as it is sayde ¶ Mayster may the ennemy be constrayned to come by wordes or by sygnes My chylde nay yf he ne wyll but they ben the couÌ„tenauÌ„ces that he hath with those that beÌ„ of his secte the which in sayenge some wordes or iÌ„ makynge some tokens or carateres thyder cometh and maketh that that he demaundeth to th ende that he them holde the better in his lyne the mayster the discyple ¶ Master what say ye of these dremes My chylde thou sholde take none hede vnto them for they ne be but vysyoÌ„s of some thyÌ„ges on the whiche a maÌ„ hath thought or sene before wakynge a man dremeth often of that the which is semblable vnto his complexioÌ„ master how knowe the ê“phetes tho dayes that that they sawe by dreme My chylde that was not by dremes all onely but it was by the reuelacyon of god for with the vysyon they had an Imagynacyon and beleue especyall in the bounte of our Lorde that that same thynge that they hadde seen in slepynge came ¶ Mayster syth that God dyscendyd in erthe for to saue the synners wherfore beÌ„ they daÌ„pned My chylde there is not so grete a synner in this worlde that if he reknowlege his synne and crye god mercy with good herte but that he be pardoned by the meryte of the deth passyon of Ihesu cryste but those that wyll not knowlege thyr synne but ben obstynate tyll vnto the deth know thou that they ben damned eternally for God saueth not the synner the whiche wyll not saue hymselfe and also paradyse is not deseruyd by synne but it is lost ¶ Mayster syth that god dyed for our synnes wherfore be we baptysed My chylde for the baptym is the homage yâ— we owe vnto oure lorde Ihesu cryst by the whiche all our synnes ben pardoned and in suche wyse ordeyned he it as telleth the gospell that sayth thus QuicuÌ„que baptisatê° fuerit That is to say who so shall be baptysed shall be saued and he that is not shall be dampned ¶ Mayster how many persones shall be saued My chylde there shall be as many saued as there fell of the cursyd aungelles of paradys by theyr pryde for the men and the womeÌ„ ben made for to be in theyr place and for that cause is the ennemy so enuyous ayenst man ¶ Mayster from whens came the fyrst Idolatres My chylde they were fyrst founde in abell the whiche is now callyd babylon yâ— grete and there shall the antecryst be borne and there was the toure with the gyauntes the which is of .xl. stages There regned the fyrst kynge of this worlde the whiche men called Neron the whiche caused to be made an Image of Appolyn and commaundyd all those of his realme that they sholde do hym sacryfyce and worshypped hym and in lykewyse dyd they the whiche came after hym in suche wyse that whan some grete princes were deed theyr successoures caused to make of Images maruaylously ryche iÌ„ the name of theyr predysessoures and made theyr subgettes to adoure theÌ„ to do sacryfice were callyd Idolles in to whom the deuyll entred spake tolde them many of abusyons so dyde they of grece vnto theyr kynge and they of rome vnto Romulus as men fynde by the wrytynges and auncyent cronycles ¶ Mayster wherfore ne made God that man ne sholde ete but one tyme in a weke My sone the honger is one of the passyons yâ— we suffre by the synne of Adam and so we haue euery day hoÌ„ger thyrste colde and heet and many other passyons to th ende that we trauayle alway for to thynke on oure nedes and of our neyghboures to the ende that by oure trauayle and laboure contynuall we haue the more meryte for yf the man hadde not of necessyte he sholde haue no care to trauayle but he sholde be euermore in slouthe and sholde not knowe what good were worthe and also he sholde mysknowe his creatoure And howe be hyt that the grete lordes and geÌ„tylmen and other that be ryche trauayleth not corporallye All be it that they trauayled spyrytuallye euermore That is to vnderstande in theyr vnderstandynge and wyll in hauynge euermore desyre to gete for he that moost hathe and more wolde haue moost hath in thynkynge and so my chylde none ne may lyue without payne trauayle but euery man hath moche to do in his ryght the mayster the discyple the mayster the dyscyple the dyscyple the mayster MAyster howe fro wheÌ„s shall the Antecryst come my chylde he shall be borne in babylon of a cursyd man of a cursyd woman the which shall be of the lygnage of Dam of the woÌ„be of his mother he shall be full of the cursed spyryte shall be nourysshed and confermed in enchauntementes and shall be Emperour of all the worlde shall put the people vnder him in foure maners That is to vnderstande the prynces other ryche couetous by gyftes for he shall haue by his enchauntementes all the tresoures hydde in the erthe The poore by grete drede rygoure of Iustyce for he shall make them greuously to be martred The clergy by connynge whereof he shall be full For he shall conne yâ— .vij. artes all the other scryptures the deuoute persones by tokens by myracles that shall be marueylous For he shall make the fyre to dyscende that shall brenne his ennemyes before hym also he shall make the deed men to aryse not truely but the deuyll shall entre in to the bodyes of some daÌ„pned and the deuylles shall bere them anone make them to speke by his enchauntement to walke as if they were on lyue shall reedyfye Ihrlm and there he shall make hym to be honoured as god there shall be receyued in grete honoure men shall come to hym frome all partes he shall make semblauÌ„ce to the people by his enchauÌ„tementes that he shall dye that he shall aryse shall make hym to be lyft vp in heyght by the deuyls sayenge yâ— he wyll wounte in to the glorye of paradys than god seynge his grete pryde thyder shall sende his auÌ„gels of paradys for to confounde hym in suche wyse that the deuyls yâ— shall lyfte hym shall fle shall lette hym fall to the erthe in suche wyse that he shall gyue so grete a stroke
vpoÌ„ the erthe that he shall scatter so that the trypes shall lepe out of his bely so shall he dey myscheuously the deuylles shall bere hym vysybly iÌ„ to hell Than those that by hym hath beÌ„ deceyued shal returnethem vnto god to the holy predycacyons of Helye of Enoch that they haue before herde shall be confermyd in the holy fayth of Iesu criste and they shall haue xl dayes of space for to do penaunce and anone after they shall suffre sharpe deth ¶ Mayster iÌ„ what age shall Helye Enoch come My chylde they shall come in suche aege as they were whaÌ„ they were rauysshyd in to paradys terrestre wherin they be yet and shal be tyll vnto the comynge of Antecryste the whiche shall kyll them and shal reygne by thre yeres and an halfe and shall holde his syege in the mounte of olyuete for to vaynquysshe and to trede vnderfote the Iuste men and there shall deye of a sodeyn dethe by the wyll and coÌ„mauÌ„dement of our lorde as it is sayde ¶ Mayster what thynge is that the resurreccyoÌ„ My chyld it is whaÌ„ that a man cometh agayne from deth to lyfe there ben two that is to vnderstande the resurreccyon of the soule whan that it is deed by mortall Synne and is returned vnto lyfe by confessyon and penaunce and the other resurreccyon is of the body as whan the boâ—y the whiche is deed retourneth vnto lyfe whan the soule is put agayne in the body as we rede of Lazare and of many other And as we shall be all at the daye of Iugement the mayster the discyple ¶ Master at what houre and in what tyme shall all mankynde arryse My chylde we shal aryse at such a day and at such an houre as Ihesu Cryste arose at Eester and the good shall be rauysshed in the the ayer with the other good the which shall be areysed And in that rauisshemeÌ„t they shal deye and anone after they shall ryse and in lykewyse beleue we that it was done of our ladye and of Saynt Iohan the euangelyste But the euyll shall dye vpon the erthe in grete anguysshe and doloure of the grete drede that they shall haue and we all shall be of the aege as oure Lorde was whan he deyed on the tree of the crosse That is to vnderstande of .xxxiij. yeres ¶ Mayster shall they aryse in the same flesshe in the which they haue lyued in this worlde My chylde ye for yf a man were eten with a wolfe and that wolfe of an other and the other of alyon yet sholde heryse in his owne body entyerly without that that there shall fayle ony thynge vnto the perfeccyon of nature for as the holy scrypture sayth Capillis de capite vestro non peribit That is to saye that he shall not lose one onely heere of his heed but that there shall be all entyerly For he that made all of nought can wele seuer one mater from another and it returne in his entyer and better than it was before And iÌ„ suche wyse those the whiche haue ben croked or lame and yll formed or who so hath had ony faute in ony meÌ„bre shall be ryght and perfyte entyerly But the dampned shal not be but as they were or had be in the aege of .xxxij. yeres And frome the tyme that they shall be areysed they shall neuer deye but shall lyue the good in glorye eternall the yll euermore in dyenge in the fyre of hell where they shall brenne without power to consume ony thynge but shall be in that doloure and in the payne eternally ¶ Mayster at what houre shall the Iugement be made My chylde at mydnyght at the houre that he dyscendyd in to hell ¶ Mayster howe shall god come in Iugement My chylde as he was whan he mouÌ„ted in to heuen ¶ Mayster where shal the grete Iugement be made My chylde hit shall be made in the vale of Iosophat the which is as moche to saye as the vale of Iugement The whiche is nere to Iherusalem for to confounde the ylle whan they shall se the place where our lorde dyed for the synners In that place shall be all good and ylle the good shall haue theyr good aungels with them and the yll shall haue theyr yll aungels And all shall be of the aege yâ— our lorde was whan he dyed on the tree of the crosse that is at .xxxij. or .xxxiij. yeres and the good shall be lyfte vp in to the ayre with god and his sayntes but the yll shall be in erthe with the deuylles for the grauyte of theyr synnes and oure lorde shall shewe hym in two maners that is to vnderstande vnto the good as he was whan he transfyguryd hym in the mountayne of Thabor But vnto the euyll he shall shewe hym as he was whaÌ„ he honge on the crosse and there shall not be the wood of the crosse but a ryght fayre and clere clowde in the fourme and semblaunce of the crosse And there shall be with oure lorde the vyrgyn Marye on the one syde and saynt Iohan baptyst on the other syde and the .xij. appostles the which shall Iuge with god lyke as wytnessyth the gospell the which sayth thus Sedebitis et nos iudicantes tribus Israell And our lorde Ihesu Cryst shall say vnto the good Come you vnto me the whiche ben the blessyd sones of my father and I shall now gyue you the realme of heuen the whiche vnto you is made redy from the begynnynge of the worlde For whan I haue had hunger ye haue fedde me in nourysshynge the poore the whiche ben my membres and whan yâ— I haue had thyrste ye haue gyuen me to drynke and whan I haue hadde colde ye haue warmed me whaÌ„ I haue beÌ„ naked ye haue clothed me and haue done many werkes charytables wherof I wyll now recoÌ„pence you And vnto the cursed in castynge his sentence shall saye thus Goâ— ye acursed vnto the fyre of hell eternally the whiche is made redy vnto you frome the begynnynge of the worlde with all the deuyls And this done our lorde Iesu cryste and all his holy aungels archaungels shall mounte with the good in to the glorye eternall of paradys And the cursed so shall descende in to hell with all the deuylles from whens they shall neuer come nor departe but shall be euermore in payne doloure heuynes in the fyre of hell perdurably ¶ Mayster which ben those that shall be damned My chylde that shall be the Iewes mysbeleuers the cursed crystyens that shall deye in mortall synÌ„e withoute repentauÌ„ce And men shall se clerely at the day of Iugement the conscyence the one of the other wherby euery man shall gyue Iugement of hymself and in this maner shal be knowen all the good dedes the yll For a man dyd neuer ony yll ne synne be hiâ— neuer so secrete but that than it shall be clerely seen shewed openly before god and before all
see shall dyscende in depnesse so lowe that men shall lose the syghte The .iij. that the see shall returne in to his fyrst estate The .iiij. that the fysshes iÌ„ the see shall assemble theym in grete hepes and shall crye and wayle them moche pyteously The .v. that the byrdes shall assemble them in grete hepes makynge pyteous playntes and syngynge moche pyteouslye without drynke and withoute meet The .vi. that the lyghtenynges shall come out from the oryent towarde the occydent shall brenne all that that it shall mete The .vij. that the starres shall haue theyr beames longe lyke here hangynge The .viij. that all the erthe shall tremble in suche wyse by ouer all that there ne shall be beest in the worlde that may abyde vpon his fete without fallynge The .ix. that the stones grete toches shall cloue all in powder The .x. that the trees and the grasse shall sweet a dewe as redde as bloode The .xi. that the mountaynes shall knocke the one a yenst the other with so grete force that they shall returne in to pouder And at that daye all buyldynges and batylmentes shall fall and there shall not abyde one stone vpon another The .xij. that the wylde bestes shall renne out of the wode shall go vpoÌ„ the erth makynge horryble cryes iÌ„ waylyng ryght hitcously The .xiij. that the men the women shall go on the erthe as without wyt wtout meet wtout power to speke the one vnto the other for the grete distresse that they haue in theyr hertes The .xiiij. that all the sepultures tombes of the deed bodyes shall open to th ende that all they that be deed goo out whan they shall aryse The .xv. token shall be that all those the whiche than shall lyue vpoÌ„ the erthe shall deye and after aryse with all them the whiche haue ben deed frome the begynnynge of the worlde tyll vnto th ende the whiche shall be than and shall aryse all at the voyce of the aungels the whiche shall crye in sayenge Ye deed bodyes aryse and come vnto your Iugement at the whiche voyce they shall aryse all and in a moment they shall be borne in to the vale of Iosophat where incontynent the Iugement shall be made ¶ Mayster how may a man well saue hymselfe My câ—ylde iÌ„ louynge god his maker more than he doth hym selfe and his neyghboure as hymselfe ¶ Mayster what ben the sacramentys of holy chyrche My chylde there ben .vij. That is to vnderstande baptyme confyrmacyon confessyon the ordre of preesthode the sacrament of awter the enclynge and the sacrament of Maryage ¶ Mayster what ben the artycles of the faythe My chylde there ben xij The fyrste artycle is that thou sholdest beleue in one god onely all myghty creatoure of heuen and of erthe The seconde that thou sholdest beleue in oure Lorde Ihesu Cryst the onely sonne of God eternall The thyrde that he was conceyued of the holy goost â–ª in the precyous wombe of the vyrgyn Marye with out the sede of man the whiche chylded wtout payne wtout doloure and wtout corrupcioÌ„ ne spotte of synne and so abode vyrgyn entyerlye in the chyldynge and after the chyldynge The .iiij. artycle that he suffred deth and passyon vnder the hande of ponce Pylate was crucyfyed deyed on the crosse for vs was buryed in the holy sepulture The .v. that he dyscendyd in to hell and delyuered the holy soules the whiche were in the lymbe and that he arose the thyrde day frome deth to lyfe The .vi. that he styed in to heuen and set hym on the ryght hande of the father almyghty The vij that he shall come at the daye of Iugement to Iuge the quycke the deed The .viij. that thou sholde beleue in the blessyd holy goost The .ix. that thou shold beleue in the holy chyrche in beleuynge that that she beleueth in doynge hir coÌ„mauÌ„demeÌ„tes in the which euery one may make his saluacyon to haue remyssyon of his synnes that yâ— good done of one persone may helpe another The .x. that thou shold beleue the remyssyon of synnes that is to say that whan thou hast duely coÌ„fessyd the of all thy synnes hast accoÌ„plysshyd thy penaunce after the ordenaunce of thy confessoure haste made satysfaccyon suffycyent that they ben pardoned yâ— forgyuen The .xi. that we shall aryse all from deth vnto lyfe at the day of Iugement in our owne flesshe body entyerly The .xij. that fro that tyme that we ben a rysen that we shall lyue eternally without euermore to deye the good shall be in the glory eternall of paradys the ylle in hell in wepynges waylynges eternally ¶ Mayster what ben the coÌ„maundementes of the lawe my chyld there are .x. The first is that thou shold worshyppe serue and honour one onely god almyghty The .ij. is that thou sholde not swere by the name of god in vayne wtout cause lefull necessyte as in IugemeÌ„t or in other cause semblable The .iij. that thou sholde halowe the feestes in seruynge our lorde wtout doynge ony operacyon corporall also in kepynge yâ— from synne as moche as thou mayst for the â—estes be made holy for to serue god and for to make the helthe of the soule The. iiij is that thou bere houour reuerence all obeysauÌ„ce vnto thy frendes spyrytualles and temporalles as ben thy fader thy moder the pastures of holye chyrche The .v. commauÌ„dement is that thou ne shalte bete ne stryke no man nor do hym ony outrage of dede ne of thoughte The .vi. is that thou sholde be no thefe in takynge from another as by extorcyon vsury by stryfe by dysceyte or otherwyse by falsenesse The .vij. is that thou shalt not accoÌ„plysshe the synne of fornycacyoÌ„ The .viij. that thou shalt not bere false wytnesse as in forswerynge the in Iugement or in spekynge some false wordes of de traccyon and defemacyon of ony persone The .ix. is that thou shalt not coueyte another mannes wyse by concupiscence carnall The .x. that thou shalt not be enuyous of another mannes welth in desyrynge to haue his by falsenes or procurynge his domage ¶ Mayster howe farre is it to walke frome hens vnto paradys from hens in to hell My chylde this questyon is Inough tyll another tyme. But god gyue vs grace to go out of the may of hell so well to folowe the waye of paradys that we maye all thyder come AMEN