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Marie Richards at Sep 08, 2020 04:04 PM

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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 n'y perdroit.
Certes il les fist pour che que nous les ayons puis-
que par nous biens faiz nous les savons deffervir
et qu'il nous en a de sa grace donne le sens l'entende-
ment et le povoir. Pour quoy dieu fourma l'om-
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 lom'me il le
volt faire et creer a sa fi-
gure et a sa samblanche
affin quil eust ramenbran-
che des biens qu'il lui ot
prestez et qu'il les peust


Translation

made. So we must love above all else him who
made and formed us and to know willingly when we have
such power and authority through him, that if we are willing
to love him we will be lords of all his
things. For let us love him then with all our strength, and
thus will we act wisely. 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 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 semblance.

When God formed
man

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v

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 n'y perdroit.
Certes il les fist pour che que nous les ayons puis-
que par nous biens faiz nous les savons deffervir
et qu'il nous en a de sa grace donne le sens l'entende-
ment et le povoir. Pour quoy dieu fourma l'om-
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 lom'me il le
volt faire et creer a sa fi-
gure et a sa samblanche
affin quil eust ramenbran-
che des biens qu'il lui ot
prestez et qu'il les peust


Translation

made. So we must love above all else him who
made and formed us and to know willingly when we have
such power and authority through him, that if we are willing
to love him we will be lords of all his
things. For let us love him then with all our strength, and
thus will we act wisely. 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 them.
And for this purpose, by his grace he has given us wit, understanding,
and power.