And Then The
Christian Men Went Where Them Liked Best, At Their Own Pleasance,
Without Letting Of Any Creature, And Their Enemies Enclosed And
Confounded In Darkness, Without Any Stroke.
Wherefore we may well say with David, A DOMINO FACTUM EST ISTUD; &
EST MIRABILE IN OCULIS NOSTRIS.
And that was a great miracle, that
God made for them. Wherefore methinketh that Christian men should
be more devout to serve our Lord God than any other men of any
other sect. For without any dread, ne were not cursedness and sin
of Christian men, they should be lords of all the world. For the
banner of Jesu Christ is always displayed, and ready on all sides
to the help of his true loving servants. Insomuch, that one good
Christian man in good belief should overcome and out-chase a
thousand cursed misbelieving men, as David saith in the Psalter,
QUONIAM PERSEQUEBATUR UNUS MILLS, & DUO FUGARENT DECEM MILIA; ET
CADENT A LATERE TUO MILLE, & DECEM MILIA A DEXTRIS TUIS. And how
that it might be that one should chase a thousand, David himself
saith following, QUIA MANUS DOMINI FECIT HAEC OMNIA, and our Lord
himself saith, by the prophet's mouth, SI IN VIIS MEIS
AMBULAVERITIS, SUPER TRIBULANTES VOS MISISSEM MANUM MEAM. So that
we may see apertly that if we will be good men, no enemy may not
endure against us.
Also ye shall understand that out of that land of darkness goeth
out a great river that sheweth well that there be folk dwelling, by
many ready tokens; but no man dare not enter into it.
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