GREAT FLATTERERS OF THE PEOPLE, NEITHER REPROVING NOR
REMOVING THEIR SINS FROM AMONG THEM
Also friars show not to the people their great sins stably, as God bids,
and namely to mighty men of the world, but please them, and glozen,e and nourish them in
sin. And since it is the office of a preacher to show men their foul sins and
pains therefore, and friars take this
office, and do it not, they be cause of damnation of the people. For in this
they be foul traitors to God and ekea
to the people, and they be nurses of the fiend of hell. For by flattering and
false behestsb they let
men live in their lusts, and comfort them therein, and sometimes they pursue
other true preachers, for they will not glozec
mighty men, and comfort them in their sins, but will sharply tell them the
sothe;d and thus mighty men
hire by great costs a false traitor, to lead them to hell And ensample men may
take how friars suffer mighty men,
from year to year, to live in avowtrie,e
and covetousness, and extortious doing, and many other sins. And when men be
hardened in such great sins, and will not amend them, friars should flee their homely company; but they do not thus, lest
they lose worldly friendship, favour, or winning; and thus for the money they
sell men’s souls to Satan.[1]
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