Agriculture -- England; Conduct of life; Home economics, Rural
therfore it is better, to forgoo a lyttel pleasure, or suffer[33]
a lyttell payne in this worlde, than to suffer a moche
greatter and a lenger payne in an other worlde. Nowe 40
sythe helle is derer than heuen, I aduyse the specyally
[Sidenote: Wherefore buy heaven.]
to bye heuen, wherin is euerlastynge ioye without ende.
158. ¶ What ioyes or pleasures are in heuen.
[Sidenote: Augustine.]
Saynt Austyn saythe, _Ibi erunt quæcunq_ue _ab hominibus
desiderantur, vita et salus, copia glorie, honor, pax, et
omnia bona_: That is to saye, There shall be euery thynge
that any man desyreth, there is lyfe, helth, plenty of ioye, 4
honour, peace, and all maner of goodnes. What wolde a
[Sidenote: 1 Cor. ii. 9. Isa. lxiv. 4.]
man haue more? And saynt Paule sayth, _Occulus non vidit,
nec auris audiuit, nec in cor hominis ascendit, quæ preparuit deus
diligentibus se_: That is to say, The eye hath not seen, nor 8
the eares hath herde, nor the herte of a man hath thought
[Sidenote: [Fol. 73.]]
of so goodly thynges, that god hath ordeyned for theym
that loue hym. O what a noble acte that were for an
husbande or houswyfe, to purchase suche a royall place in 12
heuen, to whiche is no comparyson. Than it is to
be knowen, what thynge pleaseth god most, that we myght
do it.
159. ¶ What thynges pleaseth god most.
[Sidenote: 1 Cor. ii. 9.]
By the texte of sayncte Paule, before sayd, loue pleaseth
god aboue al thinge, and that maye be well proued by the
[Sidenote: Prov. xxxiii. 26.]
sayinge of our lorde hym-selfe, where he saythe: _Da mihi
cor tuum, et sufficit mihi_; Gyue me thy harte, and that is 4
sufficiente for me; for he that hath a mannes harte, hath
all his other goodes. What is this mans harte? it is
nothyng elles, but very trewe loue. For there can be no
true loue, but it commeth meryly and immediately from 8
the harte: and if thou loue god entyerlye with thy harte,
than wylte thou do his commaundementes. Than it wolde
be vnderstande and knowen whiche be his commandementes,
that a man may obserue and kepe them. 12
160. ¶ What be goddes commaundementes.
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