maner that this world be maked coeterne with his maker; as who
40
seith, they wene that this world and god ben maked togider eterne,
and that is a wrongful weninge. For other thing is it to ben y-lad
by lyf interminable, as [Plato] graunted to the world, and other
thing is it to embrace to-gider al the present of the lyf interminable,
the whiche thing it is cleer and manifest that it is propre to the
45
devyne thoght.
Ne it ne sholde nat semen to us, that god is elder thanne