The.xxviii. chapyter

NOw where he moste lamenteth that the clergye dothe no more to appease these grudges of the temporaltye towarde them, and after he preacheth to them holyly what thynges they sholde do that they do not, that is to wyt, forbere such thynges as he spake of byfore / wherby he specyally meaneth as bothe before and in dyuerse places after appereth, the euyll & vncharytable handelyng of heretyques, wherof the man hath nothing proued / but also that they shold do thynges whych he sayth men se them not do, that is to saye geue almoyse, and were heare, and fast,▪ and pray, that this dyuysyon may cease: now y• all the spyrytual men do not so, that is very trewe. And yt is as trewe I trow that this thousande yere was neuer the tyme that all so dyd. And therfore yf that thyng cause and kepe in this dyuysyon, yt muste haue ben a thynge of a thousande yere olde. But I thynke that many of, them do all these thynges whyche this pacyfyer precheth to haue done. For I am sure that though some do not theyr part therin / yet amōge y• spiritualty ther is both geuīg of grete almoyse, & wearynge of heare, and fastyng, & prayenge for peace. But whether they take this dyuysyon to be so great and so vnyuersall as this pacyfyer speketh of, that can I not tell, and peraduenture they do not. And whether they do or no / surely I do not. Nor whyther they praye for the pacyfycacyon of thys dyuysyon in all suche maner wyse as the thyng requyreth, that I can not tell / but there may be peraduenture therin some ouer syght vppon theyr part. For if they leue nothing vnprayed for that maye perteyne to y• pacificacyō of thys dyuysyon, then must they peraduenture put into theyr seruyce both matens, masse, and euynsonge, some specyall collect, and therin pray god that yt may please hym that the peple maye perceyue the sotle sleyghtes of the deuyll & some other of hys lymes, in many partes of this boke of this pacyfycacyon / whyche thynges peraduenture the compyler perceyued not hym selfe, but was therin of symplycyte by some sotle shrewe deceyued.