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rule of the gospell, sith Christ him-selfe saith it is light and esy:
what nede was it to patrons of freres to adde more therto, and so
to make an harder religion, to save freres, than was the religion
that Christes apostels and his disciples helden and weren saved
by; but-if they wolden that her freres saten above the apostels
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in heven, for the harder religion that they kepen here? And so
wolde they sitten in heven above Christ himselfe for the moo and
strait observaunces; than so shulde they be better than Christ