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246 GREGORY'S PASTORAL. [Cotton MSS. heortan þe hie ahebbað for ðære twyfealdnesse ðæs unryhtan wærscipes ðurh ryhtlicne cwide & dom weorðað ofdune aworpne.

XXXVI. Đætte on oðre wisan sint to manianne ða halan, on oðre ða unhalan.

On oðre wisan sint to manian ða truman, on odre ða untruman. Đa truman sint to manianne ðæt hie gewilnigen mid ðæs lichoman trumnesse ðæt him ne losige sio hælo ðæs modes, ðylæs him ðy wiers sie, gif hie ða trumnesse ðære Godes giefe him to unnytte gehweorfað, & ðylæs hie siððan geearnigen swæ micle hefigre wite swæ hie nu egeleaslicor & unnytlicor bruca ðære mildheortlican Godes giefe. Forðon sint to manianne ða halan ðæt hie ne forhycgen ðæt hie her on worlde on ðære hwilendlican hælo him geearnigen ða ecean hælo. Ymb ða hwilendlican tida sanctus Paulus spræc, ða he cwæð: Nu is hiersumnesse tima & nu sint hælnesse dagas. Eac sint to manianne ða halan ðæt hie Gode wilnigen to licianne ða hwile þe hie mægen, ðylæs hie eft ne mægen, ðonne hie willen. Forðæm wæs gesprecen ðurh ðone wisan Salomon bi ðæm Wisdome ðæt se Wisdom wille sona fleon ðone þe hiene flihð, ðonne he hiene ful oft ær to him clipað, & he forsæcð ðæt he him to cume. Ac eft, ðonne he ðone Wisdom habban wolde, & his wilnað, ðonne cwið se Wisdom to him : Ic eow clipode ær to me, ac ge me noldon æt cuman ; ic ræhte mine hond to eow, nolde eower nan to locian; ac ge forsawon eall min geðeaht, & leton eow to giemeliste, ðonne ic eow cidde. Hwæt sceal ic ðonne buton

shame. The high corners fall, when the hearts which exalt themselves because of the insincerity of unrighteous cunning, are thrown down through a rigliteous sentence and judgment. XXXVI. That the healthy are to be admonished in one way, in another the unhealthy. The healthy are to be admonished in one way, in another the unhealthy. The healthy are to be admonished to desire that through the health of their bodies they may not lose the health of their minds, lest it be the worse for them if they make the soundness of God's grace useless to themselves, and lest they hereafter merit so much the heavier punishment the more fearlessly and uselessly they now enjoy