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102 GRECORY'S PASTORAL. [Cotton MSS. & ðærute he was abisgod ymb tæs folces ðearfe. Đærinne he sceawode on his mode ða digolnesse ðære godcundnesse, ond ðonon utbrohte ðæm folce, & cyðde hwæt hie wyrcean & healdan sceoldon. And simle ymb ðæt þe hiene ðonne tweode, ðonne orn he eft into tæm temple, & frægn ðæs Dryhten beforan ðære carce þe se haligdom on wæs ðæs temples. He onstalde [astealde] on ðæm bisene ðæm reccerum þe nu sindon. Hie sculon, ðonne hie ymb hwæt tweoð ðæs þe hie ðærute don sculon, cyrran eft to hiera agnum inngeðonce, & ðær God ascian, swæ swæ Moyses dyde beforan ðære earce on ðæm temple. Gif hie ðonne git ðær tweonað, gongen ðonne to ðæm halgum gewritum, frine ðara hwæt he don ofte læran scielen. Forðon sio Soðfæstnes self, ðæt is Crist, ða he on eorðan wæs, he hiene gebæd on muntum & on diglum stowum, & on burgum he worhte his wundru, mid ðæm he strewede ðone weg ðære onhyrenesse ðæm godum lareowum, ðæt hie ne (om.) sceolden forhycgean ðone geferscipe ðara synfulra & ðara ungetydena, ðeah þe hie selfe wilnigen ðæs hihstan. Forðon ðonne sio lufu for mildheortnesse niðerastigeð, & hio hie geðiet to his nihstena ðearfe, ðonne bið (om.) hio swiðe wunderlice upastigen ; and swæ micle swæ hio estelicor ofdune astiged, swæ hio ieðelicor upastigeð; swelce hie sculon hie selfe ætiewan, ða oðrum fore bioð, ðætte ða þe him underðiedde sien him durren hiera diglan ðing for scome geondettan. Forðæm ðonne ða yða ðara costunga þa synfullan ðrowiað, ðæt hie mægen iernan & fleon to ðæs lareowes mode him to andettunge, swæ swæ cild to his modur greadan, & þa scylda þe hie wenað ðæt hie mid besmitene sin, mid his fultume & geðeahte hie mægen aðwean clænran ðonne hie ær ðære costunge

in it he was led to divine contemplation, and outside he occupied himself with the people's wants. In it he contemplated in his mind the mysteries of godliness, and brought them out thence to the people, and proclaimed what they were to do and observe. And whenever he was in doubt he ran back into the temple and asked God about it before the ark, in which was the covenant of the temple, thus setting an example to those who are now rulers. When they are uncertain about anything which they are to do outside, they must return to their mind, and there ask God, as Moses did before the ark in the temple. If they still doubt there, let them go to the holy Scriptures, and ask there what they are to do or teach. For Truth itself, that is Christ, when on earth prayed on mountains and in retired places, and per-