English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500; Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 1066-1485 -- Sources
_And I believe that thus, CHRIST our Saviour, after that he had
ordained this most worthy Sacrament of his own precious body, he
went forth wilfully against his enemies, and he suffered them most
patiently to lay their hands most violently upon him, and to bind
him, and to lead him forth as a thief, and to scorn and buffet him,
and all to blow or_ [de]_file him with their spittings._
_Over this, I believe that CHRIST suffered, most meekly and
patiently, his enemies for to ding_ [beat] _out with sharp scourges,
the blood that was between his skin and his flesh: yea, without
grudging, CHRIST suffered wicked Jews to crown him with most sharp
thorns, and to strike him with a reed. And, after, CHRIST suffered
wicked Jews to draw_ [lay] _him out upon the Cross, and for to nail
him there, upon foot and hand; and so, through this pitiful nailing,
CHRIST shed out wilfully, for man's life, the blood that was in his
veins: and then, CHRIST gave wilfully his spirit into the hands or
power of his Father. And so, as he would, and when he would, CHRIST
died wilfully, for man's sake, upon the Cross. And notwithstanding
that CHRIST was wilfully, painfully, and most shamefully put to
death as to the world, there was left blood and water in his heart,
as he before ordained that he would shed out this blood and this
water for man's salvation. And therefore he suffered the Jews to
make a blind_ [ignorant] _Knight to thrust him into the heart with a
spear; and this the blood and water that was in his heart, CHRIST
would shed out for man's love._
_And, after this, I believe that CHRIST was taken down from the
Cross, and buried._
_And I believe that on the third day, by the power of his godhead,
CHRIST rose again from death to life. And forty days thereafter, I
believe that CHRIST ascended up into heaven; and that he there
sitteth on the right hand of GOD the Father Almighty. And the tenth
day after his up going, he sent to his Apostles the HOLY GHOST, that
he had promised them before._
_And I believe that CHRIST shall come and judge all mankind, some to
everlasting peace, and some to everlasting pains._
_And as I believe in the Father, and in the Son, that they are one
GOD Almighty; so I believe in the HOLY GHOST that is also, with
them, the same GOD Almighty._
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