[Sidenote: What is riches.] It is to be vnderstande what is rychesse; and as me semeth, rychesse is that thynge, that is of goodnes, and can-not be taken awaye from the owner, neyther in his temporall lyfe, nor in the lyfe euerlastynge. Than these 4 worldly possessions, that I haue spoken of, is no richesse, for why they be but floures of the worlde. And that may be wel consydered by Iob, the whiche was the rychest man of worldely possessions, that was lyuynge in those 8 [Sidenote: [Fol. 71.]] daies, and sodeynely he was the poorest man agayne that coulde be lyuynge, and all the whyle he toke pacyence, and [Sidenote: Job i. 21.] was content, as appereth by his sayenge, _Dominus dedit, dominus abstulit: sicut domino placuit, ita factum est, sit 12 nomen domini benedictum_: Our lorde hath gyuen it, our lorde hath taken it awaye, and as it pleaseth our lorde, so be it, blessed be the name of our lorde. The whiche Iob may be an ensample to euery true chrysten man, of 16 his pacyence and good liuing in tribulation, as appereth in his storye, who that lyste to rede therin. And saynte [Sidenote: Augustine.] Austyne saythe: _Qui terrenis inhiat, et æterna non cogitat, utrisq_ue _in futuro carebit_: he that gathereth in worldly 20 thynges, and thynketh not vppon euerlastynge thynges, shall wante bothe in tyme to come. For sayncte [Sidenote: Ambrose.] Ambrose saythe, _Non sunt bona hominis, quæ secum ferre non potest_: They are not the goodes of man, the whiche 24 [Sidenote: Bernard.] he can-not beare with him. And saynte Bernarde saythe: _Si vestra sint, tollite vobiscum_: Yf they be yours, take them with you. Than it is to be vnderstande, what goodes a man shall take with hym. And these be the good dedes 28 and warkes that thou doste here in this temporall lyfe, [Sidenote: Chrysostom.] wherof speketh Crysostome: _Fac bene, et operare iustitiam, [Sidenote: [Fol. 71_b_.]] vt spem habeas apud deum, et non desperabis in terra_: Doo well, and worke ryghtwysly, that thou mayste haue truste 32 in god, and that thou be not in despayre in this worlde. [Sidenote: Ps. xxxvii. 25.] Accordynge to that saythe the prophete Dauyd, _Iunior [Sidenote: (Ps. xxxvi. 25, Vulgate.)] fui, etenim senui, et non vidi iustum derelictum, nec semen eius querens panem_: I haue ben yonge, and I haue waxen 36 olde, and I haue not seen a ryghtwyse man forsaken, nor his chyldren sekynge theyr breade.