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| heer whyte ne black / 516 but your oth shal be ye / ye / nay / nay . | |||
| And what that is more euyl / thus saith Crist 517 For cristes | |||
| sake swere ye not so synfully in dismembryng of Crist . | |||
| by soule / herte / bonys / and body . For ye thinke that the | |||
| cursid Iewis dismembrid hym not ynowh but ye dismem | |||
| bre hym more / 518 And yf so be the lawe compelle you to swere | |||
| thenne rewle you after the lawe of god in your sweryng | |||
| As saith seynt Iherome the . iiij . chapitre Thou shalt kepe | |||
| thre condicions Thou shalt swere in trouth / in dome / and | |||
| in rightwisnes 519 This is to saye thou shalt swere soth For | |||
| euery lesing is ayenst Crist / for crist is very trouthe / And | |||
| thinke wel this that euery grete swerer not compellid law | |||
| fully to swere the plaghe of vengeance shal not parte from | |||
| his hous whiles he vseth suche vnlawful swering 520 Thou shalt | |||
| eke swere in dome whenne thou art compellid by thy domes | |||
| man to witnesse the trouthe / 521 Eke thou shalt not swere for | |||
| enuye / for fauour / for mede / but for rightwisnes for declaring | |||
| of trouth to the worship of god & to helpyng of thyn euen | |||
| cristen / 522 And therfore euery man that taketh goddes name | |||
| in ydle or falsly swerith with his mouth / or ellis taketh on | |||
| hym the name of Crist to be a callid a Cristen man & liueth | |||
| ayenst cristen liuyng & his teching / alle they take goddis | |||
| name in ydle / 523 Loke eke what saith seynt Petir Actuum | |||
| quarto / Ther is none other name vnder heuen yeuen to man | |||
| in whiche they moot be sauyd / That is to saye but in the | |||
| name of Ihesu Crist / 524 Take kepe eke hou that precyous na- | |||
| me of Ihesu Crist As saith seynt Poule at philipenses &c | |||
| In nomine Ihesu &c / That in the name of Ihesu euery | |||
| kne of heuenly creature or erthely or of helle shold bowen . | |||