Fides, Spes, Caritas, that is, Faith, and Hope, and true Charity.
This is Faith, that a man believe with his mind
in the Holy Trinity and Very Unity;
and this is Hope, that he hope in God,
both in good and in evil fortune,
and never despair of God's clemency;
This is true Love, that a man love his Creator
with unmeasured love, and those persons who wish [him] well,
even as [he loves] himself, in sincerity for ever.
For God's love we ought also to love our enemies,
so that we love the man, and hate his misdeeds.
It is for us to understand these ordinances;
Christ said in His Gospel, that we must love God
with all our hearts, above all things;
and afterward our neighbour even as ourselves;
and likewise He commanded us to love our enemies,
but He added not thereto 'with all the heart,'
nor even 'as ourselves,' because it verily sufficeth for them,
that we love them and have no hatred towards them,
though we love them not with all the heart, nor love them as ourselves.
How there are eight Chief Sins, which sorely fight against us:
one is called Gula, that is. Gluttony in puglish,
which maketh a man eat and drink before the time,
or again to take too much in food or in drink.
This destroyeth both soul and body,
because it bringeth upon the man much sickness,
and bringeth him to death through immoderate drinking;
it destroyeth also the soul, because he will often sin,
when he himself knoweth not how he behaveth, by reason of his fiendlike drink.
