ABSTRACT
Good men and woymen, suche a day N. 3e schull haue an hegh 4 fest and a holyday yn holy chyrche of Goddys too apostoles 150 a Seynt Symon and Iude. Wherfor 3e schull fast || þe even, and come on þe morow to chyrch and 1 worschip God and his holy apostols. Then schull 3e know þat ayþir of þes apostoles hadden 8 two names, þat won was callet Symon 3elotes and Symon Chananeus, and þat oþer was callet Iudas Iacobi and Iudas Thaddeus, in þis schoyng, how þe name þat 2 a man or of a woman haþe, hit dyeth 3 yn this world and passuþ out of mynde yn schort 12 tyme aftyr his dethe. Wherfor ych crystyn man wyll be bysy to gete hym a nome þat schall be wrytten yn Heuen yn þe boke of lyfe, þat schall last for euermore. Herefore þe apostoles suffren gret dyspyte, and doses, and trauayle, and penance, and 16 at þe last payne of deþe for Goddys sake wyth meke hert and clene consyence. For Symon ys vndyrstondon obedience 4 þat make þe a man meke yn hert, and Iudas ys vndyrstondon confessyon, þat clansyþ a mannys consciens of all maner fulþe of synne. Thus 20 befor deþe þay euen yche man and woman ensampull, and techeþe how þat þay þat suffyrth any doses for Goddys sake wyt meke hert and clene conscyens, þay ay schull be worschepyt hely of God yn Heuen, and hor names wrytton þer wyth gret worschyp 24 ynto þe fraternite of all þe seyntys yn Heuen. But þen ben þer mony þat God sendyþe doses and greues for gret loue and encres of mede yn Heuen; but for þay take not hit wyth meke hert and clannes of conscience, but grucchyth þerwyth and playneth 3erne 28 þerapon, wherfor þay haue gret nede forto pray God of help, and forto be helut of þat sekenes þat þay haue yn hor hert and yn hor spyryte, as we redyn yn þe lyfe of þes apostles, how a kyng þat was callet Abagarus dyet. 32
