lawe. & what sect grucchiþ aȝenus þis is suspect of heresye, for what shulde it harme ony man þat þis treuþe were wel discussid: but it were good to cristenmen to laste in þer olde bileue, þat þis breed is goddis body & þis wyn is goddis blood, & not an vnknowun þing wiþ-oute resoun or autorite; for men shulden holde þer olde bileue but ȝif þe contrarye were wel tauȝte. & þus it were a blessid dede þat lordis wolden not ȝyue þer almes neþer to o prest ne oþer, bifore þey tauȝten bi good witnesse what þing were þis sacrid oost, boþe in his kynde & in figure, by maner þat þe gospel spekiþ. & þus ȝif god wolde fouche-saf, hooly chirche shulde be purgid of heresyes in þis mater, aboute which þey dispenden myche, as in prestis þat syngen masse; & certis it were ydolatrye to loute þus an accident. & no man durste seye til nou þat accident is goddis body, for þis newe word may haue no ground, & was not knowun þat þousinde ȝeer þat sathanas was boundun in helle, & ȝit he shameþ to seye þis gabbing.
Capitulum 5tum.
but heere grucchiþ anticrist & drediþ þat manye of his clerkis shulen wante þer worldly worchip, & þus his lordchip shal be lesse. for ȝif goddis lawe were kept clene wiþ-oute þe fendis lawe, & þe ordenaunse of crist were clene wiþ-outen anticristis, where shulden þes foure sectis be lordis as þey nou ben? & þus þe chirche were destried þat haþ be so longe in growing. Heere han trewe men seyd ofte þat þis is a fendis resoun, as ȝif þe arguere wolde mene þat crist faylide in his lawe & in his ordenaunse which he ordeynede in þe chirche, & þus men menen alle in dede þat ben of þes foure sectis. but, lord, where is vnbileue in heretik but ȝif þis be oon? & þus it semeþ þat alle þes foure smacchen sum what of heresye, & þey louen not iesu crist, for þey haten þus his lawe. but poul seiþ a soþ word þat [1 Cor. xvi. [22.]] [page 28] "who euere loueþ not iesu crist he is cursid of god,
