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HERE BEGINNETH THE FOUR AND SIXTIETH CHAPTER
Of the other two principal powers, Reason and Will; and of the work of them before sin and after.
REASON is a power through the which we depart the evil from the good, the evil from the worse, the good from the better, the worse from the worst, the better from the best. Before ere man sinned, might Reason have done all this by nature. But now it is so blinded with the original sin, that it may not con work this work, unless it be illumined by grace. And both the self Reason, and the thing that it worketh in, be comprehended and contained in the Memory.
Will is a power through the which we choose good, after that it be de-
