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| in seruyse for whiche men yeue thingis spirytuel vnto her | |||
| seruauntis it muste be vnderstande that the seruyse be ho- | |||
| nest or els not / And eke that it be withoute barganyng | |||
| and that the persone be able / 714 For as saith saynt Damas | |||
| Alle the synnys of the world at regard of this synne ben | |||
| as thing of nough / For it is the grettest synne that may | |||
| be after the synne of lucifer and of anticryst / 715 For by this | |||
| synne god forlesith the chirche and the soule that he bought | |||
| with his precyous blood by hem that yeuyn chirchis to hem | |||
| that be not digne / 716 For they put in theuys that stelyn the | |||
| sowlis of Ihesu Crist and distroye his patrymonye / 717 By | |||
| suche vndigne preestis and curates haue men the lesse reue | |||
| rence of the sacraments of holy chirche . And suche yeuers | |||
| of chirchis put out the children of Crist and put in to the | |||
| chirchis the deuyllis owen children / 718 They sellen the soules | |||
| that shal kepe the lambis to the wolf that strangle hem . | |||
| And therfore shal they neuer haue parte of the pasture of | |||
| lambis that is the blisse of heuen / 719 Now comyth hasardrye | |||
| with his appertenauntis as tablis / quardes and reuellis . | |||
| of whiche comyth disceyt false othis / chidyngis / and alle | |||
| raueyns / blasfemyngis / reynyng of god / hate of his neygh | |||
| bours / wast of goodis / myspendyng of tyme / And some | |||
| tyme manslaghter / 720 Certes hasardours may not be with | |||
| oute grete synne whyles they hauntyn that craft / 721 Of aua- | |||
| ryce comyth eke / lesyngis / thefte / fals witnes / and false | |||
| othis / And ye shal vnderstande that these ben grete synnys | |||
| and expres ayenst the comandements of god as I haue said | |||
| 722 Fals witnes is eke in word and in dede / In word as to | |||
| byreue thy neyghbours good name by thy fals witnessyng | |||