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faiz. Si devons sur toute riens amer celui qui nous
fist et fourma et bon gre savoir quant nous avons
tel povoir et telle auctorite par lui que se nous le
voulons amer nous serons seigneurs de tous ses
biens. Or le amons doncques de toute nostre puissan
che si ferons comme saiges. ou se non nous y aurons
dommaige grant. Car se par nostre cause nous
perdons tous yceulx biens que nostre signeur a fais
par nous. Ja pourtant dieu riens ny perdroit.
Certes il les fist pour che que nous les ayons puis
que par nous biens faiz nous les savons deffervir
et quil nous en a de sa grace donne le sens lentende
ment et le povoir. Pour quoy dieu fourma lom
me a son ymage et samblanche entenderez

[image: Title: Creation of Eve
Form: Small miniature, 7 lines
Text: Man created in God's image]

QUant dieu four
ma lomme il le
volt faire et creer a sa fi
gure et a sa samblanche
affin quil eust ramenbran
che des biens quil lui ot
prestez et quil les peust

made. So we must love above all else Him who
made and formed us and to know willingly how much
power and authority we have through him, so that if we are willing
to love him we will be lords of all that He possesses.
For let us love him then with all our strength, and
thus will we act like wise men. Otherwise we will have
great trouble, for by our own action we [will]
lose all those good things which our Lord has made
for us. For indeed God would lose nothing of them.
Surely He made them so that we might have them, since
by our good acts we know how to discern ( see note_ them.
And for this purpose, by his grace he has given us wit, understanding,
and power. [rubric] You will hear why God formed man
in his own image and likeness.

When God formed
man, He wanted
to make and create him in his own image
and likeness
so that he would be remember
the good things that He had
given him, and so that he could

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faiz. Si devons sur toute riens amer celui qui nous
fist et fourma et bon gre savoir quant nous avons
tel povoir et telle auctorite par lui que se nous le
voulons amer nous serons seigneurs de tous ses
biens. Or le amons doncques de toute nostre puissan
che si ferons comme saiges. ou se non nous y aurons
dommaige grant. Car se par nostre cause nous
perdons tous yceulx biens que nostre signeur a fais
par nous. Ja pourtant dieu riens ny perdroit.
Certes il les fist pour che que nous les ayons puis
que par nous biens faiz nous les savons deffervir
et quil nous en a de sa grace donne le sens lentende
ment et le povoir. Pour quoy dieu fourma lom
me a son ymage et samblanche entenderez

[image: Title: Creation of Eve
Form: Small miniature, 7 lines
Text: Man created in God's image]

QUant dieu four
ma lomme il le
volt faire et creer a sa fi
gure et a sa samblanche
affin quil eust ramenbran
che des biens quil lui ot
prestez et quil les peust

made. So we must love above all else Him who
made and formed us and to know willingly how much
power and authority we have through him, so that if we are willing
to love him we will be lords of all that He possesses.
For let us love him then with all our strength, and
thus will we act like wise men. Otherwise we will have
great trouble, for by our own action we [will]
lose all those good things which our Lord has made
for us. For indeed God would lose nothing of them.
Surely He made them so that we might have them, since
by our good acts we know how to discern ( see note_ them.
And for this purpose, by his grace he has given us wit, understanding,
and power. [rubric] You will hear why God formed man
in his own image and likeness.

When God formed
man, He wanted
to make and create him in his own figure
and likeness
so that he [man] would have remembrance
of the good things that He had
given him, and so that he could