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26.2 GREGORY'S PASTORAL. [Cotton MSS. XXXVII. Ðætte on oðre wisan sindon to manianne ða þe him ondrædað Godes swingellan oððe manna, & forðy forlætað ðæt hie yfel ne doð; on oðre ða þe bioð swæ aheardode on unryhtwisnesse ðæt hie mon ne mæg mid nanre ðreaunge geðreatigean.

On oðre wisan sint to manianne ða þe him swingellan ondrædað, & forðæm unsceðfullice libbað; & on oðre wisan sint to manianne ða þe on hiera unryhtwisnessum swæ aheardode bioð ðæt hie mon mid nanre swingellan gebetan ne mæg. Ðæm is to cyðanne þe him swingellan ondrædað ðæt hie ðissa eorðlicena goda to swiðe ne gitsien, ðeah hie gesion ðæt ða yflan hie hæbben ongemang him, forðæm hie sint ægðerum gemæne ge yflum monnum ge godum; & ne fleon eac ðis andwearde yfel, swelce hie hit adreogan ne mægen, forðæmþe hit oft gode menn her on worlde ðreogað. Eac hie sint to manianne, gif hie geornlice wilnien ðæt him yfel ðing losige, ðonne bio him swiðe egefull ðæt ece wite; nealles ðeah swæ egefull ðæt hie ealneg ðurhwunigen on ðæm ege, ac mid ðæm fostre ðære Godes lufan hie sculon uparisan & weaxan á ma & ma to lufianne ða godcundan weorc. Forðæm Iohannes se godspellere cwæð on his ærendgewrite, he cwæð: Sio fullfremede Godes lufu adrife; aweg ðone ege. And eft cwæð sanctus Paulus : Ne underfengon ge no ðone Gast æt ðæm fulluhte to ðeowianne for ege, ac ge hiene underfengon to ðæm ðæt ge Gode geagnudu bearn beon scylen, forðy we clipiað to Gode, & cweðað, Fæder [, Fæder added]. Forðon cwið eac se ilca lareow: Ðær se

XXXVII. That those who fear God's chastisements or men's, and therefore abstain from evil-doing, are to be admonished in one way; in another, those who are so hardened in unrighteousness as not to be corrected by any reproof. Those who dread chastisement, and therefore live innocently, are to be admonished in one way; in another, those who are so hardened in their unrighteousness that it is not possible to reform them with any chastisement. It is to be made kuown to those who fear chastisement that they are not to desire too much earthly prosperity, although they see that the wicked possess it among themselves, because it is common