pouerte with the vow of obedience to the comaunde|mentis of certein devisid statutis and reulis, letten and biforebarren, ȝhe, and forbeden thilk religioun be doon and vsid, which is cleen and vnwemmed anentis God and the Fadir. Forwhi thei letten and biforebarren, ȝhe, and forbeden to her religiose per|soones forto visite fadirles and moderles children and widowis in her tribulacioun, as is open ynowȝ to ech considerer. And ȝit this visiting is a cleene religioun and vnwemmed anentis God and the Fadir bi the text of Iames now alleggid. Wherfore alle tho othere now seid religiouns had and vsid in the chirche ben vn|leeful and not worthi be had and vsid.
The ije. argument is take of the wordis and textis of Seint Poul, Coloc. ije. capitulum., ie. Thim. iiije. capitulum., ije. Thim. iije. capitulum., Tite ie. capitulum., and of the wordis and text of Peter, ije. Pet. ije. capitulum., and in manye othere placis, whiche textis y schal reherce here next bi and bi. First, ije. Pet. ije. capitulum. in the bigynnyng, Petir writith thus: False prophetis weren in the peple, as in ȝou schulen be maistris liers, that schulen bringe yn sectis of perdicioun, and thei denyen thilk Lord that bouȝte hem, and bringen on hem silf hasti per|dicioun; and manye schulen sue her leccheries, bi which the wey of treuthe schal be blasphemed: and thei schulen make marchaundie of ȝou in coueitise bi feyned wordis, to whiche doom now awhile ago cesith not, and the perdicioun of hem nappith not. Also ie. Thim. iiije. capitulum. in the bigynnyng, Poul seith to Bischop Thimothie thus: The Spirit seith openli, that in the laste tymes summen schulen departe fro the feith, ȝeuyng tent to spiritis of errour and to techingis of deuelis, that speken leesing in ypocrisie, and han her conscience corrupt, forbeding to be weddid, to abstene fro metis whiche God made to take with doing of thankingis to feithful men and hem that han knowe the treuthe: (for ech crea|ture
