By the other lady ye shall understand the old law and the fiend, which all day warreth against Holy Church, therefore ye did your battle with right. |
He that warreth lawfully, he that warreth with this only, and with this constantly, shall be sure to overcome. |
If he that warreth under an earthly King, must not be intangled with those things which should withdraw him from his armes, much less should he warreth under the King of Heaven be intangled so. |
It warreth in the soul; it abuseth your affections, to carry on the rebellion against heaven. |
Now envy warreth against love, and unbelief against belief, even as bitterness warreth against sweetness, and darkness against light, and that which is evil against that which is good. |