The Mending of Life
Translated by Dundas Harford
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[CHAPTER I] [OF CONVERSION]
[OF CONVERSION]
Tarry thou not for to turn to God, and delay not from day to day; for the unmerciful death ravisheth suddenly wretches, and the bitterness of pain devoureth hastily those that be slow for to turn to God. And it may not be told how many worldly men false hope and presumption hath beguiled.
It is a great sin a man to trust in God s mercy that will not leave his sins, trowing that God’s mercy is so nuch that He will not punish sinners rightfully for their misdeeds. Therefore the Gospel beseeches us thus to do: “Dum dies est operamini; venit enim nox in qua nemo potest operari”: “Work while it is day, for when the night cometh no man may work.”
The day he calleth our life here, in which we should alway do good works, knowing that the time of death [is] uncertain to us.
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About this edition
- The words
- Dundas Harford's English translation, copied word for word.
- Left out
- Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 11 places
- The binder's label on the scanned copy and the half-title (2 blocks)
- Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 9 places
- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1
- The title line over the first chapter (the app makes its own title)
- Other material that isn't the author's