[Sidenote: [Fol. 73_b_.]] There be in all .x. commaundementes, the which were to long to declare, but they be all concluded and comprehended [Sidenote: Deut. vi. 5. Lev. xix. 18.] in two, that is to say: _Diliges dominum deum tuum super omnia: Et proximum tuu_m _sicut te ipsum_: Loue thy 4 lorde god aboue al thing, and thy neyghboure as thy-selfe. These be lyghte commaundementes, and nature byndeth a man to fulfyll, obserue, and kepe them, or els he is not a naturall man, remembryng what god hath doone for the. 8 Fyrste he hath made the to the symylytude and lykenes of his owne ymage, and hathe gyuen to the in this worlde dyuerse possessions, but specyally he hath redemed thy soule vpon the crosse, and suffered great payne and 12 passion and bodelye deathe for thy sake. What loue, what kyndenes was in hym, to doo this for the? What couldest thou desyre hym to do more for the? And he [Sidenote: God asks love for love.] desyreth nothynge of the agayne, but loue for loue. What 16 can he desyre lesse? 161. ¶ Howe a man shulde loue god and please hym. Surelye a man maye loue god and please hym very many wayes: but fyrste and principally, he that wyll loue god, [Sidenote: [Fol. 74.]] and please hym, he muste doo as it is sayde in Symbalo [Sidenote: Athanasian Creed.] Athanasii: _Quicunq_ue _vult saluus esse, ante omnia opus est 4 vt teneat catholica_m _fidem_, Who so euer wyll be saued, aboue all thynge he must nedes be stedfast in the faythe of holy churche. And accordynge to that, saythe sayncte [Sidenote: Heb. xi. 6.] Paule: _Sine fide impossibile est placere deo_; Without faythe 8 [Sidenote: Seneca.] it is impossible to please god. And Seneca sayth: _Nichil retinet, qui fidem perdidit_: There abydeth no goodnes in hym, that hath loste his faythe. And soo thou mayste well perceyue, that thou canst not loue nor please god, 12 without perfyte fayth. And ferther-more thou mayste not presume to study, nor to argue thy faithe by reason. For [Sidenote: Gregory; xl. Homil. in Evang. ii. 26.] saynte Gregory saythe: _Fides non habet meritum, vbi humana ratio prebet experimentum_: Faythe hath no meryte, where 16 as mannes reasone proueth the same. This faythe is a pryncypall sygne, that thou loueste god. Also thy good dedes, and thy warkes, is a good sygne, that thou loueste [Sidenote: Jerome.] god. For saynt Iherome saythe: _Vnusquisque, cuius opera 20 facit, eius filius appellatur_: whose warkes euery man dothe, [Sidenote: Bernard.] his son or seruaunt he is called. And sayncte Bernarde saythe, _Efficatior est vox operis, q_uam _vox sermonis_: The [Sidenote: [Fol. 74_b_.]] dedes and the warkes of a man is more euydent profe, 24 [Sidenote: Seven works of mercy.] than his wordes.