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par son pechie qui lui tolt et oste et seigneur en eust
este se il eust volu se il se fust maintenuz en faisant tous
jours bonnes euvres et se fusst abstenuz et gardez de fai
re mal. Car qui bien fait en cest monde il a tant de
biens et dhonneur que les angheles de paradis en font
leur seigneur et leur maistre devant dieu le roy couron
ne. dont celui se poeut bien tenir pour bien eure qui fait
tant de biens en terre tant comme il vit quil puisse
telle honneur conquerre et auoir Et faire se poeut
chascune persone tout par soy se il lui plaist. Or en
fait chascun sicomme bon lui samblera et se procede
au quel quil vouldra. Car il lui poeut bien gaignier
et perdre sil lui plaist. Pour quoy dieu ne fist lomme
tel quil ne peust pechier aulcunement :-
QUant nostre seigneur dieu crea lomme il
lui donna povoir de faire sa volente. Cest assavoir de
faire ou le bien ou le mal le quel quil vouldroit. Car
se dieu eust fait lomme tel quil neuist poeut pechier
ne faire fors tout bien il lui tolroit aucune chose de
son povoir. Car il neuist peu faire mal quant il lui
eust pleu et par ainsi il sensient que volsist ou non

been for his sin, which took it from him. And he would have been a lord,
had he wanted to, if he had maintained himself in always doing
good works and if he had abstained and kept himself from doing
evil. For he who does good in this world has so many good
things and such honor that the angels in paradise make him
their lord and master in the sight of God the crowned king.
And he may consider himself to have worked well who does
such good things on earth as long as he lives, so that he might
attain and have such honor. And every person can do
this for himself if he so desires. Indeed everyone does
what seems good to himself and acts as he wills. So he can
gain or lose, as he pleases. **** [rubric] Why God did not make man
so that he cannot sin at all: [rubric]
When our Lord God created man He
gave him power to do his own will. That is to say
to do good or evil, whichever he chooses. For
if God had made man so that he could never sin
or do anything but good, he would have taken away something
from his agency. For he would not have been able to do evil when
he wanted to, and in this way he would have felt that whether he wanted to or not

par son pechie qui lui tolt et oste et seigneur en eust
este se il eust volu se il se fust maintenuz en faisant tous
jours bonnes euvres et se fusst abstenuz et gardez de fai
re mal. Car qui bien fait en cest monde il a tant de
biens et dhonneur que les angheles de paradis en font
leur seigneur et leur maistre devant dieu le roy couron
ne. dont celui se poeut bien tenir pour bien eure qui fait
tant de biens en terre tant comme il vit quil puisse
telle honneur conquerre et auoir Et faire se poeut
chascune persone tout par soy se il lui plaist. Or en
fait chascun sicomme bon lui samblera et se procede
au quel quil vouldra. Car il lui poeut bien gaignier
et perdre sil lui plaist. Pour quoy dieu ne fist lomme
tel quil ne peust pechier aulcunement :-
QUant nostre seigneur dieu crea lomme il
lui donna povoir de faire sa volente. Cest assavoir de
faire ou le bien ou le mal le quel quil vouldroit. Car
se dieu eust fait lomme tel quil neuist poeut pechier
ne faire fors tout bien il lui tolroit aucune chose de
son povoir. Car il neuist peu faire mal quant il lui
eust pleu et par ainsi il sensient que volsist ou non

been for his sin, which took it from him. And he would have been a lord,
had he wanted to, if he had maintained himself in always doing
good works and if he had abstained and kept himself from doing
evil. For he who does good in this world has so many good
things and such honor that the angels in paradise make him
their lord and master in the sight of God the crowned king.
And he may consider himself to have worked well who does
such good things on earth as long as he lives, so that he might
attain and have such honor. And every person can do
this for himself if he so desires. Indeed everyone does
what seems good to himself and acts as he wills. So he can
gain or lose, as he pleases. **** [rubric] Why God did not make man
so that he cannot sin at all: [rubric]
When our Lord God created man He
gave him power to do his own will. That is to say
to do good or evil as he chooses. For
if God had made man so that he could never sin
or do anything bug good, he would have taken away something
from his power. For he would not have been able to do evil when
he wanted to, and in this way he would have felt that whether he wanted to or not