[Linenotes: 2875, 2877 _lost[e]_--loste 2878 _burden_--burdene 2879 _look[e]_--looke 2880 _firste_--fyrst 2883 _whiche_--which _gouerment_--gou{er}nement _worlde_--wordyl 2885 _wist[e]_--wiste 2887 _pleynely_--pleynly 2888 _here byforne_--her byforn 2889 _worlde is_--world nis 2890 _ȝitte doute_--yit ne dowte _nil_--nel 2892 _wot_--MS. wote, C. wot 2892, 2894 _worlde_--world 2893 _answere_--answeren 2894 _many_--manye 2895 _myȝten_--myhte 2896 _þere_--ther _many[e]_--manye 2897 [_diuerse_]--from C. _hire_--hir 2898 _most[e]_--moste 2900 _þere_--ther _contened[e]_--contenede _haþ_--MS. haþe 2902 _furþe_--forth _ordinee moeuynge_--ordene moeuynges 2904 _þere_--ther _stedfast_--stidefast 2905 _ordeyned[e]_--ordeynede _disposed[e]_--disponede 2907 _whiche_--which _ben_--be _ylad_--MS. yladde, C. I-ladd 2908 _worde_--word _folke_--foolk 2911 _wilfulnesse_--welefulnesse] [Headnote: GOD IS ALL-SUFFICIENT.] [Sidenote: But let us reflect a little more upon these matters.] ¶ But lat vs loken þe þinges þat we han p{ur}posed her-byforn. [[pg 103]] [Sidenote: Did we not agree that _Sufficiency_ is of the nature of true happiness?] ¶ Haue I nat nou{m}bred {and} seid q{uod} she 2913 þat suffisaunce is in blisfulnesse. [Sidenote: And have we not seen that God is that true felicity, and that He needs no external aid nor instruments?] {and} we han accorded þat god is {and} þilke same blisfulnesse. ¶ yis forsoþe q{uo}d I. {and} þat to gouerne þis worlde q{uod} she. ne shal he 2916 neuer han nede of none helpe fro wiþoute. [Sidenote: For if he should, he would not be self-sufficient.] for ellys yif he had[de] nede of any helpe. he ne sholde not haue [no] ful suffisau{n}ce. ȝis þus it mot nedes be q{uo}d I. [Sidenote: And he directs all things by himself alone?] ¶ þan ordeyneþ he by hym self al oon alle þinges q{uo}d 2920 she. [Sidenote: _B._ It cannot be gainsaid.] þat may nat ben denied q{uo}d I. [Sidenote: _P._ I have shown that God is the chief good; God must, therefore, direct and order all things by _good_, since he governs them by himself, whom we have proved to be the _supreme good_, and he is that helm and rudder, by which this machine of the world is steadily and securely conducted.]