In all tribulation we owe to be stedfast in the feith trosting mytyly in God. For if our faith had no enimyte it should deserve no mede; and how all these shewings arn in the faith. Seventieth chapter.

In all this blissid shewing our good Lord gave understondyng that the syte shuld passyn, which blissid shewing the feith kepith with His owne good will and His grace. For He left with me neyther signe nor token wherby I myte knowen it, but He left with me His owne blissid worde in true understondyng, byddand me full mytyly that I shuld leven it, and so I do; blissied mot He ben. I beleve that He is our Savior that shewid it, and that it is the feith that He shewid; and therfore I leve it, enjoyand, and therto I am bounden be al His own menyng with the next words that folowen: Kepe the therein, and comfort the therewith, and trost thou therto. Thus I am bounden to kepen it in my feith. For on the selfe day that it was shewid, what time that the syte was passid, as a wretch I forsoke it, and openly I seid that I had ravid.

Than our Lord Jesus of His mercy wold not letten it perish, but He shewid it al agen within, in my soule, with mor fulhede with the blissid lyte of His pretious love, seyand these word full mytyly and full mekely: Witt it now wele, it was no raving that thou saw this day; as if He had seid, "For the syte was passid fro, thee lestist it and couthest not kepe it, but witt it now; that is to sey, now that thou seest it." This was seid not only for the same time, but also to setten thereupon the ground of my feith, where He seith anon folowing, But take it, leve it, and kepe the therin, and comfort the therwith, and trost thou therto, and thou shalt not be overcome. In these six words that folowen "take it," His menyng is to festyn it feyfully in our herte, for He will that it dwell with us in feith to our lifes end, and after in fulhede of joy, willand that we have ever sekir trost in His blisfull behests knowyng His goodness. For our feith is contried in divers manners be our owne blindhede and our gostly enemy within and without. And therfore our pretious lover helpith us with gostly syte and trew teching on sundry manners, within and without, wereby that we may know Him. And therfore in what manner He techith us, He will we persivyn Him wisely, receivyn Him swetely, and kepin us in Hym feithfully. For aboven the feith is no goodnes kept in this life, as to my sight, and beneath the faith is no helpe of soule. But in the feith, there will the Lord that we kepe us.

For we have be His goodnes and His owne werkeing to kepe us in the feith, and, be His suffrance, be gostly enmyte we are assayed in the feith and made myty. For if our feith had none enmyte it should deserve no mede, as to the understondyng that I hav in all our Lords menyng.