Into iustifiyng of this ije. principal gouernaunce y procede bi certein conclusiouns, of whiche the firste is this: Holi Scripture weerneth not and lettith not neither reproueth suche now seid pilgrymagis to be don. This conclusioun y proue thus: If eny place of Holy Scripture schulde so weerne, thilk place were this ie. Petri iiije. capitulum. where it is writun thus: Moost dere britheren, nile ȝe go in pilgrimage in feruour which is maad to ȝou to temptacioun: [This is Wiclif's rendering of the Vulgate, "Carissimi, nolite pe|regrinari in fervore, qui ad tenta|tionem vobis fit." Both here and elsewhere Pecock's citation agrees best with the later form of Wiclif's version. See Wycl. Bibl. vol. 4. p. 612.] but so it is, that this now rehercid text of Scripture lettith not such bifore seid pilgrimage; and noon other place of Scripture is founde for to weerne suche seid pilgrimage. Wherfore noon place of Holy Scripture it weerneth, reproueth, or lettith.
The ije. premisse of this argument mai be proued thus: The now rehercid proces of Petri (ie. Petri iiije. capitulum.) spekith not of pilgrimage which is a bodili going or a bodili remouyng fro oon place into an other, but he spekith of a variaunce and of a chaunging within|forth [with inforth, MS., the hyphen at the end of the line being (acci|dentally?) omitted. It is distinctly written conjunctim just below.] in mannis wil, bi which a man leueth and forsakith and passith withinforth fro that that he hath take upon him to kepe as lawe of God, and that for persecucioun which is don to him for the holding and keping of thilk lawe of God; which variaunce and awey going now seid Seint Peter clepith there pil|grimage bi a likenes to bodili pilgrimage and bi a figuratijf speche, which pilgrimage of the now seid variaunce he wolde that no Cristen man schude do. And this is al the meenyng of the now alleggid text. And if this be the meenyng ther of, certis he thanne
