on oððer wyssan swā þat þā ylcan eft ne cumæð þǣr ðǣr hȳ ēr wēron, eallunga swā swā hy ēr wēron, ac cumað ōðre for hȳ, swā-swā lēaf on trēowum; and æpla, græs, and wyrtan, and trēoweu foraldiað and forsēriað and cumað oððer, grēnu wexað, and gearwað, and rīpað; for þat hȳ eft onginnað sēarian. And swā eall nȳtenu and fugelas swelces ðe nū ys lang æall to ārīmanne. Gē furþum manna lichaman forealdiað, swā-swā ōðre gescæaftas ealdiað;[1] ac swā-swā hȳ ær wurðlicor lybbað þonne trēowu oðþe ōðre nȳtenu, swā hȳ ēac weorðfulicor ārīsað on dōmes dæge, swā þæt nēfre syððan[2] þā līchaman ne geendiað nē ne forealdiað; and þēah se līchama[3] ēr wēre gemolsnod, [gȳt] wæs sēo sāwl[4] simle lybbende, siððan[5] hēo ǣrest gesceapen wes.
And æalle þā gesceaftas þe wē embe sprecað, þæt hēo ūs þince ungeþhwǣre[6] and ungestæðþie, hȳ habbað þēah sumne[7] dǣl gestæþinesse, forþām hȳ sint gebrīdlod[8] mid ðām brīdle Godes beboda.[9] Se God sealde frīdōm manna sāulum,[10] þæt hȳ mōston dōn swā good swā yfel, swæðer[11] hȳ woldon; and gehēt[12] good eadlēan ðām wel dōndum, and yfel þām yfel dōndum.[13] Mid þām Gode ys gegyered se ǣwilm ǣlces gōdes, and þanan ys gegyered and forlǣten ǣlc good tō ūs þāra þe wē habbað;[14] sē ūs gescylt wið ællum yfellum. Nys nāht ofor hyne, ac æalle þing sint under hym, oððe mid hym,
lunaribus; per aunos, veris, aestatis, autumui et hiemis successionibus; per lustra, perfectione cursus solaris; per magnos orbes, recursu in ortus suos siderum, magnam rerum constantiam, quantum sensibilis materia patitur, temporum ordinibus replicationibusque custodit.
Deus cujus legibus in aevo stantibus, motus instabilis rerum mul- tabilium perturbatus esse non sinitur, frenisque circumeuntium saeculorum semper ad similitudinem stabilitatis revocatur: cujus legibus arbitrium animae liberum est, bonisque praemia et malis poenae, fixis per omnia necessitatibus distributae sunt. Deus a quo manant usque ad nos omnia bona, a quo coercentur a nobis omnia mala. Deus supra quem nihil, extra quem nihil, sine quo nihil est. Deus sub quo totum est, in quo
