the high riches of our nature-Substance into our Sensual soul, and it is grounded in us through the NatureGoodness of God, by the working of Mercy and Grace. And thereof come all other goods by which we are led and saved. For the Commandments of God come therein: in which we ought to have two manners of understanding: [the one is that we ought to understand and know] which are His biddings, to love and to keep them; the other is that we ought to know His forbiddings, to hate and to refuse them. For in these two is all our working comprehended. Also in our faith come the Seven Sacraments, each following other in order as God hath ordained them to us: and all manner of virtues.
For the same virtues that we have received of our Substance, given to us in Nature by the Goodness of God,—the same virtues by the working of Mercy are given to us in Grace through the Holy Ghost, renewed: which virtues and gifts are treasured to us in Jesus Christ. For in that same[1]time that God knitted Himself to our body in the Virgin's womb. He took our Sensual soul:[2] in which taking He, us all having enclosed in Him, oned it to our Substance: in which oneing He was perfect Man. For Christ having knit in Him each[3] man that shall be saved, is perfect Man. Thus our Lady is our Mother in whom we are all enclosed and of her born,[4] in Christ: (for she that is
- ↑ "ilk"="same."
- ↑ Here, as above, the MS. term for the "Sensual soul" is the "Sensualite,"
- ↑ "ilk" = "each."
- ↑ The MS. word is in both cases " borne," which may mean either born or borne. S. de Cressy gives << born " both for the first word and the second. See Ix. "He sustaineth us within Himself in love," etc.; and lxiii. " In the taking of our nature He quickened us," etc.
