chirche in erthe, (and this Crist wolde not ordeyne or purueie to be ordeyned saue for sum skile and resoun,) it folewith that in the same now seid weelwilling of Crist is includid and vndirstonde, that he wolde in the same or in lijk weelwilling that as the chirche of God encrecid in erthe in noumbre and multitude of persoones, so othere louȝer heedis vndir nethe Petir or his successour schuden be in the chirche in erthe, mo or fewer, aftir that the noumbre of hem schulde suffice into the good reule of the chirche. And so folewith that in this, that Crist seide to [to is interlineated in a later and.] Peter, Thou shalt be clepid heed, is includid not oonli this, that Peter and hise successouris schulden be heed of al the chirche in erthe or that hise successouris schulden so be, but also that vndirnethe the hiȝest heed schulden be louȝer heedis, as patriarkis, primatis, archibischopis, and bischopis, seruyng and laboring into lijk eende for which Peter or hise successouris weren ordeyned for to be the heed, that is to seie, the hiȝest reuler in the chirche of God in erthe.
The ije. argument into the proof of this present iiije. principal conclusioun is this: Math. xvje. capitulum., whanne Peter hadde seid to Crist thus: Thou art the Sone of lyuyng God, Crist seide to Peter thus: Blessid art thou, Symount Bariona, for fleisch and blood schewid not this to thee, but my Fader which is in heuene. And y seie to thee, for thou art Petir, and upon this stoon y schal bilde my chirche, and the ȝatis of helle schulen not haue the maistrie aȝens hir. And to thee y schal ȝeue the keies of the kingdom of heuene; and what euer thing thou schalt binde vpon erthe schal be bounde in heuene, and what eni [Written on an erasurc, and ap|parently a clerical error for euer, which occurs in both forms of Wiclif's version; but Pecock has here deviated from it more than he commonly does.] thing thou
