alle [It deserves notice that the ori|ginal reading was all, (a form hardly occurring elsewhere in the MS.), but the change into alle seems due to the original scribe.] we offenden in manye thingis. If eny man not offendith in word, this is a perfit man. And ferther|more Iames schewith there in processe next folewing how hard it is a man to reule his tunge, that he not therbi synne. And bi this setting forth of this pro|cesse, conteynyng the cause and the perel for which he seide, Nile ȝe manye be clepid maistris, is schewid weel that Iames meeneth ther yn as he is now expowned to meene. And this meenyng of Iames is in no thing aȝens the seid iiije. politik gouernaunce had and vsid in the clergie of the chirche.
ij. CHAPITER.
AN other obieccioun mai be mad, thouȝ with no greet colour, bi iij. othere textis of the Newe Testa|ment. Of which thre oon is writun ie. Pet. ve. capitulum., thus, where Peter spekith to suche preestis as he was him silf, seiyng to hem thus: Feede ȝe the flok of God that is among ȝou, et cætera, not as hauyng lordschip in the clergie, but that ȝe be mad ensaumple of the flok of wil.
The ije. text is writun ie. Cor. iije. capitulum., thus: Summe of ȝou seith, 'I am of Poul,' an other seith, 'But I 'am of Apollos.' [Appollo, MS. (twice).] Whether ȝe ben not men? What therfore is Apollos, [Appollo, MS. (twice).] and what Poul? Thei ben mi|nistris [the ministris, MS. (first hand).] to him, to whom ȝe han bileeued.
By these ij. textis, oon of Peter, the other of Poul, it myȝte seme euereither of hem wille [willed, MS. (first hand), appa|rently.] that no preest
