[6-text p 657] of hooly thynges. or of thynges sacred to crist in two maneres. by reson of the hooly place. as chirches or chirche hawes. [802] for which euery vileyns synne that men doon in swiche places / may be cleped sacrilege. or euery violence in the semblable places / ¶ Also / they that withdrawen falsly / the rightes that longen to hooly chirche [803] ¶ And pleynly and generally .sacrilege. is / to reuen hooly thyng/ fro hooly place /. or vnhooly thyng out/ of hooly place. / or hooly thing out of vn|hooly place
¶ Releuacio contra peccatum Auaricie .
[804]
NOw shul ye vnderstonde. that the releeuynge of Auarice. is Misericorde and pitee largely taken /. And men myghten axe. why that Misericorde and pitee. [¶ Of Misericorde & pitee] is releeuynge of Auarice [805] ¶ Certes / the Auaricious man / sheweth no pitee ne Misericorde to the nedeful man / for he deliteth hym in the kepynge of his tresor. and nat in the rescowynge ne releeuynge of his euene cristene. and therfore speke I first of Misericorde / [806] ¶ Thanne is Misericorde / as seith the Philosophre. [¶ What Miseri|corde is secundum Philosophum] a vertu / by which the corage of man is stired by the mysese of hym that is mysesed /. [807] vp-on which Misericorde folweth pitee in parfournynge of charitable werkes of Misericorde [808] And certes thise thynges / [¶ Of thynges / that sholde moeue a man to Misericorde] moeuen a man to Misericorde of Ihesu crist. that he yaf hym self for oure gilt. and suffred deeth for Misericorde / and forgaf vs oure originale synnes. [809] and therby relessed vs fro the peynes of helle. and amenused the peynes of Purgatorie by penitence and yeueth grace wel to do / and atte laste the blisse of heuene / [810] The speces of Misericorde been. as for to lene and for to yeue /. and to foryeuen and relesse. and for to han [¶ Of the speces of Misericorde] pitee in herte and compassion of the meschief of his
