Another long and very curious dissertation, into which there is no space here to enter, is that on Predestination, where he arrives at the conclusion that the doctrine must be accepted as a dogma in Christian faith, but that it need not affect the Christian life—
'For every man, except a fool,
May guide himself by virtue's rule.'
A conclusion which seems almost to anticipate the conclusion arrived at in the Article of the Church of England.
The sum of Jean de Meung's religious teaching is to be found in the sermon of Genius—
'And, Lords and Ladies, this be sure,
That those who live good lives and pure;
Nor from their work and duty shrink,
Shall of this fountain freely drink.—