hise refusis with inne the boundis of lawe of kinde, how brode ellis withoute forbeding of lawe of kinde go he myȝte. And religioun in this maner takun is religioun propirli takun, and is descryued in lijk sen|tence bifore in the [vje.] [Spaces are left in the MS. for the numbers.] chapiter of the [ive.] [Spaces are left in the MS. for the numbers.] parti of this present book. In an other maner religioun is a binding up or a binding aȝens [Perhaps a clerical error for aȝen.] of a mannys fre wil with the lawis of kinde, (that is to seie, with the doomes of cleer and weel disposid resoun,) that he chese not or refuse not neither execute hise choisis or refusis aȝens the now seid lawe of kinde. And so with religioun in this ije. maner takun, which is a large and an vnpropre maner of taking and of vndir|stonding religioun, mannys wil is not refreyned saue bi lawe of kinde oonli. And bi religioun takun in the firste now bifore seid maner, which is the verry [verry is interlineated in a later hand.] propre maner of taking religioun, mannys fre wil is refreyned with more than with lawe of kinde; for he is also refreyned with othere statutis or ordinauncis maad bi God or man or with othere vowis or oothis.
Of religioun takun in the firste maner, as anentis statutis and ordinauncis maad bi God himsilf, Holi Writt spekith, Exodi xije. capitulum. and xxixe. capitulum., and as anentis ordinauncis maad bi man, Acts xxvje. capitulum., as it is bifore rehercid in the [Spaces left in the MS. for the numbers. Pecock seems to be thinking of what follows. Part v. c. viii.] chapiter of the [Spaces left in the MS. for the numbers. Pecock seems to be thinking of what follows. Part v. c. viii.] parti of this present book. Of religioun takun in the ije. maner spekith Holi Writt, Acts xe. capitulum., where Cornely, than being an hethen man not cristned, is clepid "a religiose man and dreding God;" and that for the weel keping and filling the lawe of kinde, that is to seie, the lawe of resoun. Also of this religioun it is writun Ecclesiastici ie. capitulum. in the myddil.
