alle thinges, god ne hath nat taken it of the bitydinge of thinges

to come, but of his propre simplicitee. And her-by is assoiled

thilke thing that thou puttest , that is to seyn,

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that it is unworthy thing to seyn, that our futures yeven cause of

the science of god. For certes, this strengthe of the devyne

science, which that embraceth alle thinges by his presentarie

knowinge, establissheth maner to alle thinges, and it ne oweth

naught to latter thinges; and sin that these thinges ben thus,

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