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She had said nothing more; she was learning. "Likewise saith He," resumed Hugh, "that `no man cometh to the Fadir but by me. Again, `no man may come to me but if the Fadir that hath sente me drawe him: yet `all thing that the Fadir gyueth me schal come to me." Avice spoke at last. "`All thing given' and none other? Then without we be given, we may not come. And how shall a man wit so much?"
"It seemeth me, Mistress Maude," he said boldly, "less dread to say that the Church Catholic must needs have erred, than to say that God in His Word can err." "But the whole Church Catholic!" objected Maude in a most troubled voice. "All the holy doctors and bishops that have ever been yea, and the very Fathers of the Church!" "`Nyle ye clepe to you a fadir on erthe," replied Bertram gravely.
Treuly, treuly, I seie to ghou, if ghe axen the Fadir ony thing in my name he schal ghyue to ghou." John xvi. 22, 23. Now, Margery had neither teacher nor commentary to interpret to her the words of Scripture; and the result was, that she never dreamed of modifying any of them, but took the words simply and literally.
After the first glance which had made her acquainted with the particulars above noticed, she opened the book at random near the middle, and her eye fell on the following words: "Be not your herte afrayed, ne drede it; ye bileuen in God, and bileeue ye in me. In the hous of my Fadir ben manye dwellingis; if ony thinge lasse, I hadde seid to you; for I go to make readi to you a place.
And there herd thei a voys of the fadir, that seye, Hic est filius meus dilectus, in quo mihi bene complacui. And oure Lord defended hem, that thei scholde not telle that avisioun, til that he were rysen from dethe to lyf.
"Soothly, no: it is not in the book. `Whateuer thing ye axen the Fadir in my name, I schal do that thing, saith Christ: but I hear not a word of `whatever thing ye shall ask Saint Michael, or Saint Anne." "Account you confession unto priests to be right or evil?" "It may be right I wis not; but I saw it not in the book.
And the date whan it was leyd in the erthe, was 2000 zeer before oure Lord was born. And zet is the plate of gold in the thresorye of the chirche. And men seyn, that it was Hermogene the wise man. And zif alle it so be, that men of Grece ben Cristene, zit they varien from our feithe. For thei seyn, that the Holy Gost may not come of the Sone; but alle only of the Fadir.
And if I go to make redy to you a place, eftsoone I come, and I schal take you to my silf, that where I am, ye be." John xiv. 1-3. Never before had Margery read words like these. "Be not your herte afrayed!" Why, the one feeling which she was taught was more acceptable to God than any other, was fear. "In the hous of my Fadir ben manye dwellingis."
The English version. And zee schulte undirstonde, that amonges the Sarazines, o part and other, duellen many Cristene men, of many maneres and dyverse names; and alle ben baptized, and han dyverse lawes and dyverse customes: but alle beleven in God the Fadir and the Sone and the Holy Gost: but alle weys fayle thei, in somme articles of oure feythe.
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