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mens meuvent de lui. Cent mille ans ne lui montent mie
a la centinilliesme part dune seule heure de cest monde
ne tous ceulx qui en paradis sont. dont le moindre qui la
demeure a plus de biens en une seule heure de joie de de
duit de soulaz dhonneur et de liesse dont jamais ne seront
mat ne saoulez que nulz hons ne porroit penser ne ne
sauroit en cent mil ans estimer se il tant povoit durer
Et fust il le plus soubtil de tous les hommes qui onques
furent ne qui jamais seront et y pensast le mieulx quil
pouroit. de celle tant grande et inestimable gloire est dieu
sans aultre le vray et souverain seigneur comme dieu qui
tout scet et qui tout voit quanques fust quanques et quan
ques sera et tout a quanques affiert a lui. Oncques ne lui
faillirent nulz biens tousjours les a devant lui. Ne
ne fust oncques quelque bien ne jamais ne sera quil
ne fust deuant lui pourtrait avant la creation du
monde. Oir veulliez oir pour quoy dieu fist et cre
a le monde

Pour quoy dieu fist et crea le monde

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ments are moved by him. To him, a hundred thousand years do not amount to as much as
the tiniest part of a single hour of this world,
nor do they to all those who are in paradise. For the least of those who live there
has, in a sole hour of joy, more happiness,
pleasure, solace, honor, and delight, of which he will never
be weary or sated, than any man could think of or know how to reckon in a hundred thousand years, should he live so long, or if he were the most perceptive of any man who
ever lived or will live, however hard he should think.
God is of such a great and inestimable glory,
without peer, the true and sovereign Lord, and the God who
knows all and sees all that ever was, that is, and that ever will be,
and everything that is belongs to Him. No good things are ever
lacking to Him and He has them always before Him. Nor
was there ever, nor will there ever be, any good thing that
had not been envisioned by him before the creation of the world.
Now please hear why God made and created the world.

rubric: Why God made and created the world

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mens meuvent de lui. Cent mille ans ne lui montent mie
a la centinilliesme part d'une seule heure de cest monde
ne tous ceulx qui en paradis sont. dont le moindre qui la
demeure a plus de biens en une seule heure de joie de de-
duit de soulaz d'honneur et de liesse dont jamais ne seront
mat ne saoulez que nulz hons ne porroit penser ne ne
sauroit en cent mil ans estimer se il tant povoit durer
Et fust il le plus soubtil de tous les hommes qui onques
furent ne qui jamais seront et y pensast le mieulx qu'il
pouroit. de celle tant grande et inestimable gloire est dieu
sans aultre le vray et souverain seigneur comme dieu qui
tout scet et qui tout voit quanques fust quanques et quan-
ques sera et tout a quanques affiert a lui. Oncques ne lui
faillirent nulz biens tousjours les a devant lui. Ne
ne fust oncques quelque bien ne jamais ne sera qu'il
ne fust deuant lui pourtrait avant la creation du
monde. Oir veulliez oir pour quoy dieu fist et cre-
a le monde

Pour quoy dieu fist et crea le monde

4

ments are moved by him. To him, a hundred thousand years do not amount to as much as
the tiniest part of a single hour of this world,
nor do they to all those who are in paradise. For the least of those who live there
has, in a sole hour of joy, more happiness,
pleasure, solace, honor, and delight, of which he will never
be weary or sated, than any man could think of or know how to reckon in a hundred thousand years, should he live so long, or if he were the most perceptive of any man who
ever lived or will live, however hard he should think.
God is of such a great and inestimable glory,
without peer, the true and sovereign Lord, and the God who
knows all and sees all that ever was, that is, and that ever will be,
and everything that is belongs to Him. No good things are ever
lacking to Him and He has them always before Him. Nor
was there ever, nor will there ever be, any good thing that
had not been envisioned by him before the creation of the world.
Now please hear why God made and created the world.

rubric: Why God made and created the world