sleyng & bi cursing & oþere peynes þat he feyneþ. crist tauȝte men to lyue wel bi his oune lif & his wordis, for what he tauȝte he did in dede, & bad men trowe to his werkis; men seyen þat þe pope goiþ al bi contrarye weye to þis, for his lif is not ensaumple to oþere men hou þey shulden lyue, for no man shulde lyue lik to hym, as he feyneþ bi his hye staat. crist in ech his dede & his word souȝte þe glory of god, & sufferide many reproues in his manheed for þis ende; men seyen þat þe pope aȝenward sekiþ his oune glory on alle weyes, ȝe, ȝif goddis worchip be lost. & þus he feyneþ many vngroundid gabbingis. & ȝif þis þing & many siche ben soþe of þe pope of rome, he is very anticrist & not cristis viker heere.
Capitulum 3m.
þis dyuysioun of þes popis may turne to good of many reumes, þat men trowe to noþer of hem but, for loue of iesu crist, in as myche as þey suen crist in þer lif & in þer lore. for ȝif þei gabben of þer staat & seyen þat þei ben cristis vikeris, & þey ben contrarye to hym boþe in lif & in lore, [page 26b] þo men þat ben led bi þes wolues moten go þe brode weye to helle; & þis semeþ þe perelous tyme þat poul haþ teld to þe chirche. & þus þis were a bileue þat ech man shulde grounde hym ynne, þat men shulden trowe to no pope but as he groundiþ hym in crist; & men shulden asaye þis ground, wher it be good wiþ-oute disseyt. & þus what þe pope bade do, but ȝif he tauȝte þat crist bade it, men shulden not do þis aftir hym in þat þat he were cristis viker, for it may falle þat þe fend disseyue men bi anticrist, & chalenge more þan crist dide & þus bringe strif in cristendom. for þe fend may moue mennus hertis to loue so myche worldly godis þat þey stryue & fiȝte to-gidere for departing of þes godis; & þus may anticrist & hise lette men to lyue in pees, lest þat þis lif in pees make men to knowe his giles. & þus god haþ ordeyned medicyn to knowe falsed of anticrist, þat
