The repressor of over much blaming of the clergy.

A GREET cause whi thei of the lay parti which han vsid the hool Bible or oonli the Newe Testament in her modris langage han holde the seid first opinioun was this, that the reeding in the Bible, namelich in the historial parties of the Oold Testament and of the Newe, is miche delectable and sweete, and drawith the reders into a deuocioun and a loue to God and fro loue and deinte of the world; as y haue had her of experience upon [vupon, MS. The word is written vpon and upon elsewhere.] suche reders and upon her now seid disposicioun. And thanne bi cause that the seid reed|ing was to hem so graceful, and so delectable, and into the seid eende so profitable, it fil into her con|ceit forto trowe ful soone, enformyng and tising ther to vnsufficientli leerned clerkis, that God had mad or purueied the Bible to mennis bihoue after as it were or bi the vtterist degre of his power and kun|nyng for to so ordeyne, and therfore al the hoole Bible (or, as summen trowiden, the Newe Testament) schulde conteyne al that is to be doon in the lawe and seruice to God bi Cristen men, withoute nede to haue ther with eny doctrine. Ȝhe, and if y schal seie what hath be seid to myn owne heering, sotheli it hath be seid to me thus, "that neuere man errid bi reding or studiyng in the Bible, neither eny man myȝte erre bi reeding in the Bible, and that for such cause as is now seid:" notwithstonding that ther is no book writen in the world bi which a man schal rather take an occasioun forto erre, and that for ful gode and open trewe causis, whiche ben spoken and expressid in the ije. parti of the book clepid The iust apprising of Holi Scripture. But certis thei