HERE BEGINNETH THE SIX AND FIFTIETH CHAPTER
SOME there be, that although they be not deceived with this error as it is set
here, yet for pride and curiosity of natural wit and letterly cunning leave the
common doctrine and the counsel of Holy Church. And these with all their
favourers lean over much to their own knowing: and for they were never grounded
in meek blind feeling and virtuous living, therefore they merit to have a false
feeling, feigned and wrought by the ghostly enemy. Insomuch, that at the last
they burst up and blaspheme all the saints, sacraments, statutes, and
ordinances of Holy Church. Fleshly living men of the world, the which think the
statutes of Holy Church over hard to be amended by, they lean to these heretics
full soon and full lightly, and stalwartly maintain them, and all because them
think that they lead them a softer way than is ordained of Holy Church.
Now truly I trow, that who that will not go the strait way to heaven, that they
shall go the soft way to hell. Each man prove by himself, for I trow that all
such heretics, and all their favourers, an they might clearly be seen as they
shall on the last day, should be seen full soon cumbered in great and horrible
sins of the world in their foul flesh, privily, without their open presumption
in maintaining of error: so that they be full properly called Antichrist's
disciples. For it is said of them, that for all their false fairness openly, yet
they should be full foul lechers privily.
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