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Prelatis also entren vnder colour & studie of cristis apostlis & lyuen & teche contrariously to hem & don most harm to cristendom, ȝee more þan ony soudon or sarsyn or oþer men of wrong bileue. ¶ For siþ þis stat is most wortþi in þe chirche, & þei lyuen so worldly & synfully þer-inne & turnen it vpsodon, þei distroien most þe goode lif of cristen|dom & techen most perilous heresye. And herefore þei
bicomen þe deuelis iogelours to blynde mennus gostly eiȝen; þei maken men wene þat here worldly lif & cursed ys þe holy lif of cristis apostlis, & þus bryngen in errour & heresie in þe peple, & ben sathanas transfigurid in-to an aungel of liȝt, & verrefien þis word of holy writt, þat þei ben made a spectacle to angelis & men, but on euyl manere, where þei schulden ben [page 98] a spectacle of angelis & men to loken onne with ioie for here stronge fiȝttynge aȝenst enemys of soule bi mekenesse, wilful pouert, & grete traueile in techynge of þe gospel, & suffrynge of peynes & deþ. Þerfore in en|saumple of cristene men to sue hem in þes poyntis þei ben a spectacle to angelis & men to wonder on here cursed pride, coueitise & ydelnesse in gostly traueile, & cowardise in cristis bataile, & letten charite of cristene men bi here euyl en|saumple, & þus in stede of cristis apostlis ben comen in viserid deuelis, to disceyuen men in good lif & bryngen hem to sathanas here maister, & in þis manere þei pleien þe pagyn of scottis; for as scottis token þe skochen of armes of seynt george & here-bi traieden englischemen, so þes anticristis prelatis taken name & staat of cristis apostlis, as ȝif þei wolden helpe & lede cristene men þe riȝtte weie to heuene as þei diden, but here-bi þei betraien cristene men in-to synne by suynge of here techynge & cursed lif, & leden hem faste þe weie to helle.
1 Cor. iv. 9.
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