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yeth he / the spirituall iudgeth all thinges and his spirite
sercheth the depe secretes of god / so that what so ever god
commaundeth him to do / he never leveth serchinge till he come
at the botome / the pith / the quycke / the liffe / the spirite
/ the marye and verye cause why / and iudgeth all thinge. Take
an ensample / in the greate commaundement
/ loue god with all thyne herte / the spirituall
sercheth the
cause and loketh on the benefites of god and so
conceaveth loue in
his herte. And when he is commaunded to obeye the
powers and
rulers of the worlde / he loketh on the benefytes which god
sheweth
the worlde thorow them and therfore doth it gladlye.
And when he is commaunded to loue his neyghboure as him silfe /
he sercheth that his neyghboure is created of god and bought
with Christes bloude and so forth / and therfore he loveth him
out of his harte /
and if he be evell forbereth him and with all loue
and pacience draweth him to good: as elder brothren wayte on the
younger and serve them and sofre them / and when they will not
come they speake fayre and flater and geue some gaye thinge and
promise fayre and so drawe them and smite them not / but if they
maye in no wyse be
holpe / referre the punishment to the father and
mother and so forth. And by these iudgeth he all other lawes of
god and vnderstondeth the true vse and meaninge of them. And by
these vnderstondeth he in the lawes of man / which are right
and which tirannie.
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