the phareses had corrupte with the leuen of their false gloses
and vayne fleshly tradicions. He made croked thynges streyght / as it is written / and rough smoth. Which is also to be
vnderstonde of the scripture / which the phareses had made
croked wrestynge them vn to a false sens with weked gloses /
and so rough that no man coude walke in the waye of them. For
when god said / honoure father
and mother / meaninge that we shuld obey them and also helpe them at their nede / the phareses put this glose therto / out of
their awne leuen sayenge: God is thy father and mother. Wherfore
what soeuer nede thy father & mother haue / iff thou offer
to god / thou art hold excused. For it is better to offer to god
/ then to thy father
and mother and so moch moare meritorious as god is
greater then
they: yee and god hath done moare for the then they
and is moare thy father and mother then they. As oures now
affirme / that it is moare meritorious to offer to god and his
holy deed saintes / then vn to the pore liuynge saintes. And
when god had promised the people a sauioure to come and blesse
them and saue them from their synnes / the phareses taught to
beleue in holy workes to be saued by
as if they offered and gaue to be prayd for. As oures
/ as ofte as we haue a promise to be forgeuen at the
repentaunce of the herte thorow
Christes bloud shedynge / put to / thou must first
shriue thy selfe to
vs of euery sillable / & we must laye oure handes
on thine heed and whistell out thy synnes and enioyne the
penaunce to make satisfaction . And yet art thou but loused from
the synne only that thou
shalt not come in to hell / but thou must yet sofre
for every synne
.vij. yeres in purgatory which is as whott as hell /
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