[6-text p 673] men-is hous or in thin owne / in felde or in chirche or in chirchehawe / in chirche dedicate or non / [965] ffor if the chirche be halowed / & a man or a woman spilt his kynde bi wey of synne with-inne that place / or bi wikked temptacion the chirche were enterdited / til it were reconsiled bi the [MS Arch. Seld. B. 14 folio 304b] busshoppe / [966] And if he were a preste that dide suche a vilonye / the terme of al his liff he shulde neuere singe masse / & if he dide / he shulde [¶ war ye prestes.] do dedly synne at euery tyme that he songe masse / [967] The ferthe circunstaunce is / bi suche mediat|ours [¶ quarta.] / as be messangers as for enticement / or for consentement / to bere company with felowshippe / ffor many a wrecche for to bere companye / wil go to the deuel of helle / [968] ffor they that eggen / or con|senten to the synne / ben partyners of the sinne / & of the dampnacion of the synne /
[969] The .v. . . . .is how many tymes [¶ quinta.] he hath synned / if it be in his mynde / & how offte that he hath falle / [970] ffor he that oft fallith in synne / dispisith the mercy of god / & encresith his synne / & is vnkynde to god / & he wexeth the more feble to withstonde synne / & synneth the more lightliere / [971] & the latter arisith / & is the more eschue to shriven him / & namely to him that hath be his con|fessour / [972] ffor whiche that folke whan that they falle ayeine in here olde folies / outher thei forleten here olde confessours / al vtterly / or ellis thei departen here shrifft / in diuers places / but sothely such departed shrifft deservith no mercy of god of his synnes / [973] The .vj. circun|staunce [¶ Sexta.] is this / whi that a man synneth as bi temptacion / & if him selff procure that temptacion / or bi the ex|ityng of other folke / or if he synne with a woman bi force / or bi hir owne assente / [974] or if the woman mavgre hir hede hath be enforsed or noon / this shal she telle / ffor couetise or for pouerte / & if hit was hir procurynge or non / & suche manere
