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358 gif he ær on ðæs ofermodan engles wisan innan his ingeðone of Godes gesihðe ne afeolle, ðonne ne become he no utane to ðæm sæde ðære wrohte. Be ðæm is ryhtlice awriten ðæt hie biecne mid ðæm eagum, & sprece mid ðæm fingrum, & trit mid ðy fet; forðæmþe innor bið se hierde, ðæt is se willa, se hielt ða limu utan. Forðæm, ðonne mon ða fæstrædnesse his modes innan forlisð, ðonnne bið he hwilum swiðe ungestæððiglice astyred utane on his limum, & gecyðð on ðære styringe ðara telgena utane ðæt ðær ne bið nan fæstnung on ðæm wyrtruman innan. Ac gehieren ða wrohtsaweras hwæt awriten is on ðæm godspelle, hit is awriten: Eadige bioð ða gesibsuman, forðæm hie bioð Godes bearn genemde. Be ðæm worde we magon geðencean, nu ða sint Godes bearn genemde þe sibbe wyrceað, ðætte ða sindon butan twion diofles bearn, þe hie toweorpan willað, forðæmþe ælc ðara þe hiene mid unryhte ascadan wile from ðæm geðwærnesse, he wile forlætan ðære lufan grennesse, & forsearian on ðære ungeðwærnesse. Forðæm, ðeah he hwelcne wæstm forðbrenge godes weorces, gif he ne bið of godum willan & of untwyfaldre lufan ongunnen, ne bið he nauht. Geðencen be ðissum ða wrohtsaweras hu manigfealdlice hie gesyngiað, ðonne hie ðæt an yfel ðurhteoð, & mid ðæm anum yfle aterað of ðære mennescan heortan ealle ða godan cræftas. Mid ðæm anum yfle hie gefremmað unrim oðerra yfla, forðæm ða þe ða wroht sawað, hie adwæsceað ða sibbe, þe modor is ealra godra cræfta. Forðonþe nan cræft nis Godes deorwyrðra ðonne sio lufu, ne eft ðæm deofle nan cræft lioftælra ðonne hie mon slite. Swæ hwa ðonne swæ ða wrohte bið sawende, & mid ðy ða sibbe because, had he not formerly fallen in his thoughts from the sight of God, like the proud angel, he would not have become outwardly the seed of strife. Of whom it is rightly written that he winks with his eyes, and talks with his fingers, and treads with his foot; because the guardian, that is the will, who keeps the members externally, is inside. Therefore, when a man loses the consistency of his mind internally, he is sometimes very unsteadily agitated externally in his members, and shows by the agitation of the twigs outside that there is no stability in the root inside. But let the sowers of strife hear what is written in the Gospel; it is written: “Blessed are the peaceful, for they shall be called the children of God.” From these words we can suppose that, since those who make peace are called the children of