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 1     I|    deserve a singular laud and merit, and I shall pray for them
 2     I|       our default we have some merit, to the end that where our
 3     I|     with him. Fifthly, by what merit he ascended. Sixthly, where
 4     I|      the fifth, it is for what merit he ascended; and we ought
 5     I|     that he ascended in treble merit. Whereof saith S. Jerome:
 6     I|        Jesu Christ ascended in merit of truth, for that which
 7     I|      prophets, he fulfilled in merit of humility and debonairly.
 8     I|      the life of the people in merit of justice. But by justice
 9     I|   humility of clearness is the merit, and the clearness of meekness
10     I|        reward. Meekness is the merit of clearness, and clearness
11     I|         The third point is the merit of the faith, of whom saith
12     I|    sacrament is not of so much merit, nor so full of health as
13    II|      so that I may receive the merit of my labour. Command my
14    II|   shall increase double to the merit of the crown of glory. What
15   III|      to God, and deserved less merit, and therefore she was to
16   III|      God glorious, is of great merit, which was minister to the
17   III|     complete he shall have his merit, and for labour he shall
18   III|         if he should have Iike merit which abounded so greatly
19   III|  prayed that he might have his merit and reward with S. Gregory
20   III|        me justice and have the merit thereof of God than another
21   III|    said that it was not by his merit but by virtue of his obedience.~
22   III|     faith openly and the great merit and avail that should come
23   III|     little, for he was holy by merit of his life; a vessel for
24   III|   shall be great, and of great merit tofore our Lord. He shall
25   III|  marvelled. Anon after, by the merit of S. John, his father's
26   III|       she shall be of so great merit against God. And of her
27    IV|       son what reward and what merit shall we have if we believe
28    IV|       other. The day for their merit, the place for their glory,
29    IV|   restored to him again by the merit of S. Thomas; but after,
30    IV|    Magdalene thou art of great merit and glorious, for in the
31    IV| passion be solemnised by their merit. And this reason is set
32     V|       brethren, and sort their merit with the principates. And
33     V|       time: Jerome without the merit of the faith and dowry of
34     V|   desirous and agreeable whose merit in resisting is to be hoped
35     V|     praised in him anything of merit of holiness, he commanded
36     V|         his father, but by the merit of Thaisis, the sinner.
37    VI|      the saints pray for us by merit and by effect, by merit
38    VI|        merit and by effect, by merit when their merit helpeth
39    VI|    effect, by merit when their merit helpeth us, by effect when
40    VI|       what he was, and of what merit. And then he turned him
41    VI|    clearness of the day by the merit of S. Clare, he praised
42    VI|     commanded, for to have the merit of obedience, like as God
43   VII|     John, and said that by the merit of him her people was converted,
44   VII|     not happened ne made by my merit, but it is made by thy faith,
45   VII|   sinner and sore sick, by the merit of the holy man was left
46   VII|     that he was a man of great merit towards our Lord; and from