[6-text p 657] of holy thynges / or of thynges sacred to crist/ in two maners by reson of the holy place as chirches or chirchehawes [802] ffor which euery vileyns synne / þat men doon / in soch places / may be cleped sacrilegge / or euery violence / in the semblable places / Also they that with-drawen the rightes þat longen to holy chirche / [803] And pleinly and generally sacrilegge is to reve holy thyng from holy place / or vnholy þyng out of holy place / or holy thyng out of vn|holy place /.
Hic Auaricie tractus desinit / & Remedium eiusdem Incipit/.
[804]
Now shull ye vnderstonde / þat þe Releuyng of Auarice is misericorde and pitee largely taken And men myght axe why / þat misericorde and pitee is relevyng of Auarice [805] Certes þe Auarous man sheweth no pitee ne misericorde / to þe nedefull man / for he deliteth hym / in the kepyng of his tresour and nought in the reskewyng ne relevyng of his even cristen / And therfore speke .I first of mysericorde / [806] . . . [no gap in MS.] as seith the Philosophre / a vertue / by which þe corage of a man is stered by the mysease of hym / þat is myseased [807] vpon which misericorde foloweth pitee in perfourmyng of charitable werkes / of misericorde [808] and certes thise meven men / to misericorde of Ihesu Crist / þat yafe hym self for our gilt / and suffred deth/ for misericorde / and foryave vs our originall synnes [809] and thereby relesed vs / from þe peyne of hell/ and amenused the peynes of Purgatorie by Penitence / and yeveth grace wele to do / and at the last the ioye of heuen [810] The spices of misericorde ben as for to love and for to yeve / and to foryeve and relees / and for to haue pitee in hert/ and compassion of the myschief of his
