The Ayenbite of Inwyt (Remorse of Conscience): A Translation of Parts into Modern EnglishMichel, Dan, active 14th century
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The Ayenbite of Inwyt (Remorse of Conscience): A Translation of Parts into Modern English
Michel, Dan, active 14th century
Christian life -- Early works to 1800; Devotional literature
The third article and the fifth, that follows after, belong to the Son
as to His manhood; that is to say, as He is mortal man. Then in the
third article is contained, that He was conceived of the Holy Ghost, and
born of the maid Mary. By which it is to be understood that He was
conceived in the maid Mary by the deed and by the virtue of the Holy
Ghost, and not at all by deed of man. And the maid Mary remained ever
maid and whole before and after. This article St. James, St. John’s
brother, ordained.
The fourth article belongs to His passion; that is to say, that He
suffered death under Pontius Pilate, who was a pagan, and judge at that
time in Jerusalem, by the Romans. Under that judge was Jesus Christ
condemned wrongfully at the command of three wicked Jews, and crucified,
and dead, and placed in a tomb. This article St. Andrew ordained.
The fifth article is as follows: that He went into hell after His death,
in order to lead out thence and to deliver the souls of the holy
fathers, and of all those that, from the beginning of the world, died in
true and good belief, and in hope that they should be saved by Him,
because of the sin of the first man. It behoved that all should go into
hell and abide there, the good in sure hope that Jesus Christ, God’s
Son, should come to deliver them, according as He had promised by His
prophets. And for that reason would He after His death go into hell,
that is to say, on that side where the saints were, not on that side
where were the lost, who were dead in their sin and in their unbelief.
And those He led not out, for they are lost for evermore. This article
St. Philip ordained.
The sixth article is of His resurrection, to wit, that the third day
after His death, in order to fulfil the Scriptures, He arose from death
to life, and showed Himself to His disciples, and proved His
resurrection to them in many ways for forty days. This article St.
Thomas ordained.
The seventh article is, that the fortieth day after His resurrection,
when He had eaten with His disciples, He ascended before them quite
openly into heaven, who is above every creature that is in heaven, unto
the right hand of God the Father, where He made Him [sit]. This article
St. Bartholomew ordained.
The eighth article is, that He shall come at the day of judgment to
judge the dead and the living, the good and the bad, and render to each
according as he hath deserved in this world. These are the articles that
belong to the Son. This article St. Matthew, the evangelist, ordained.
The ninth article and the three last belong to the Holy Ghost, and is
this: ‘I believe in the Holy Ghost.’ This article requires that one
believe that the Holy Ghost is the gift and love of the Father and of
the Son, from whom comes all the good of grace, and that He is one God,
and one with the Father and the Son, except the person, which is other
than the person of the Father and of the Son. This article St. James,
St. Simon’s and St. Jude’s brother, ordained.
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