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17.151: "The Fader is thanne as a fust with fynger to touche —<br />
17.151: Quia ""Omnia traham ad me ipsum &c'' —<br />
17.152: Al that the pawme parceyveth profitable to feele.<br />
17.153: Thus are thei alle but oon, as it an hand weere,<br />
17.154: And thre sondry sightes in oon shewynge.<br />
17.155: The pawme for he put forth fyngres and the fust bothe,<br />
17.156: Right so, redily, reson it shewith,<br />
17.157: How he that is Holy Goost Sire and Sone preveth.<br />
17.158: And as the hand halt harde and alle thyng faste<br />
17.159: Thorugh foure fyngres and a thombe forth with the pawme,<br />
17.160: Right so the Fader and the Sone and Seint Spirit the thridde<br />
17.161: Halt al the wide world withinne hem thre —<br />
17.162: Bothe wolkne and the wynd, water and erthe,<br />
17.163: Hevene and helle and al that ther is inne.<br />
17.164: Thus it is — nedeth no man to trowe noon oother —<br />
17.165: That thre thynges bilongeth in Oure Lord of hevene,<br />
17.166: And aren serelepes by hemself, asondry were thei nevere,<br />
17.167: Namoore than may an hande meve withoute fyngres.<br />
17.168: "And as my fust is ful hand yfolden togideres,<br />
17.169: So is the Fader a ful God, formour and shappere — -<br />
17.169: Tu fabricator omnium &c —<br />
17.170: And al the myght myd hym is in makynge of thynges.<br />
17.171: "The fyngres formen a ful hand to portreye or peynten;<br />
17.172: Kervynge and compasynge is craft of the fyngres.<br />
17.173: Right so is the Sone the science of the Fader<br />
17.174: And ful God as is the Fader, no febler ne no bettre.<br />
17.175: "The pawme is pureliche the hand, hath power by hymselve<br />
17.176: Otherwise than the writhen fust, or werkmans ipe of fyngres;<br />
17.177: For the pawme hath power to putte out the j ntes<br />
17.178: And to unfolde the fust, for hym it bilongeth,<br />
17.179: And receyve that the fyngres recheth and refuse bothe<br />
17.180: Whan he feleth the fust and the fyngres wille.<br />
17.181: "So is the Holy Goost God, neither gretter ne lasse<br />
17.182: Than is the Sire or the Sone, and in the same myghte,<br />
17.183: And alle are thei but o God, as is myn hand and my fyngres,<br />
17.184: Unfolden or folden, my fust and my pawme —<br />
17.185: Al is but an hand, howso I turne it.<br />
17.186: "Ac who is hurte in the hand, evene in the myddes,<br />
17.187: He may receyve right noght — reson it sheweth;<br />
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