SEPTIMA HERESIS.
Þe sevent heresie and þo last, þat is contened of þe sevent [7. The seventh heresy main∣tains that friars and their friends are pro∣tected from evil.] askyng, sais, þat if we wirke by counsel of þese newe ordris þat leven þe ordynaunce of Criste, we schal nedely be saved. And herby bene men lad in to fendus temptacioun, and wrappid wiþ synne ageyne þe Holy Goste; and þis is þe werste synne þat ever may falle to ony man. Wele I wote þat freris wold not here þis publischt in þe pepul, for fallyng of hor ordre. But sithen it is not groundid in bileve, he is not on Gods halve þat lettis hit for freris. Ande we schulde trow þat foundyng of abbays and frerus and [something appears to be omitted.] lettys mon þat ne þai mowe falle in þe last synne. And herfore alle maner of men schuld know Cristis ordynaunce, and travaile þerfore þat hit were clenly kept; for hit is moste light, most profitable, and moste medeful. O Lord! if al þe peple in Yngelonde traveyled in alle cuntreyes, and falsed þe kyngis wille, movyng to discordis aȝeynes þe pes of þe rewme, who wolde not say þat suche a peple were peril∣ouse in Yngelonde? mykel more if newe religious be skaterud in Cristendame, and gabben on þe wille of Criste þat is oure kynge, and moven not to pes and acorde as Crist and his apostilles did. What wonder is hit, þow batellis and oþer perellus come, þat Crist has bifore saide? God kep his Chirche fro fals ypocrites and ungroundid newe statis, not