Gospels, the [xxxje.] [A space is left in the MS. for the number.] chapiter of the same storijng, that thei lyueden streitli and in scant mete and drinke, and thei baren scrowis in her forehedis and in her lift arme; where yn the ten comaundementis of Moyses tablis weren writun, that thei myȝten therbi be remembrid the better forto kepe hem and not [not is interlineated in a later hand.] offende aȝens hem. ["Pharisæi cultu austero et vic|tu perparco utebantur, traditiones suas statuentes, quibus traditiones Moysi determinabant, pictacia char|tarum in fronte gerebant et in si|nistro brachio circumligata, quibus decalogus inscriptus erat." Petr. Comest. Hist. Evang. c, 31. fol. 191. Ed. Ludg. 1543. The Historia Evangelica is a section of the His|toria Scholastica. See Fabric. Bibl. Lat. Med. et Inf. Æt. vol. i. p. 1135. It appears that Comestor was some|times called Master of the Histories. See Nouv. Biogr. Génér. tom. xi. p. 332. Paris, 1855.]
ix. CHAPITER.
ALSO thus: Whanne Crist bifore his passioun, whilis he prechid, hadde reuokid the religioun of the ceri|monies and iudicialis sett to the lawe of kinde, and vsid of the Iewis, (and it was leeful and sufficient ynouȝ to ech Iew and to ech other man being bifore hethen forto thanne lyue after the lawe of kinde oonli withoute the seid religiosite bifore vsid of the Iewis;) ȝit Crist afterward in tyme, that is to seie, after his resurreccioun, settid the lawe of hise sacramentis to the seid lawe of kinde; for whi thanne he ordeyned and bade in comaundement baptym to be receyued, as it is open, Matheu the laste chapiter, and Mark the laste chapiter. And sithen these sacramentis, whiche Crist settid so to the lawe of kinde and ordeynede hem to be vsid of Cristen men, is a religioun, as mai
