not in pitee. These ben whiche departen hem silf, beestli men, not hauyng spi[rit]; but ȝe, moost dere brither[en], aboue bilde you silf on ȝoure moost holy feith, and preie ȝe in the Holi Goost, and kepe ȝou silf in the loue of God, and abide ȝe the merci of oure Lord Iesus Crist into lijf euerlasting. And repreue ȝe these men that ben deemed, but saue ȝe hem, and take ȝe hem fro the fier. Also Coloc. ije. capitulum., Poul writith thus: Se ȝe that no man disseyue ȝou bi philsophie and vein fallace, aftir the tradicioun of men, aftir the elementis of the world, and not aftir Crist. And sumwhat aftir there thus: Therfore no man iuge ȝou in mete or in drinke or in part of feest dai or of neomenye or of Sabbatis, whiche ben schadewis of thingis to comyng; for the bodi is of Crist. Noman disseyue ȝou, willing to teche in mekenes and religioun of aungelis tho thingis whiche he hath not seen, walking veinli, bolned with witt of his fleisch, and not holding the heed, of which al the bodi bi bondis of ioinyng to gidere vndir my|nystrid and mad wexith into encresing of God. For if ȝe ben dede with Crist fro the elementis of this world, what ȝit as men lyuing to the world deemen ȝe that ȝe touche not, neither taaste, neither trete with hondis tho thingis whiche alle [alle is added in the margin by a later (?) hand.] ben into deeth bi the ilk vce, after the comaundementis and the techingis of men? Whiche han a resoun of wijsdom in vein religioun and mekenesse, and not to spare the bodi; not in honour to the ful filling of the fleisch.
Also, Math. xxiiije. capitulum., Crist in maner of prophecie spake of vntrewe techeris, which schulden come in the daies of the Apostlis bifore the destruccioun of Ierusalem, and seide to hise disciplis thus: Men
