Wp/enm/Religioun

Relygioun ys þe ordinaunce of gostliche ileves of þe sowle oþer þe god oþer goddes, oþer theues to folughen þerto, so bisne lof and bletcing and what is to don and what is to wonden on liue for to libben of clene uertu.

Al so meniþ hit þe seluen foreseyde ileves yþrungen to one þrime þat beryþ a name. Fele and mani religiovnes arn þet sere men of sere peplys iholden.

Folughende of manie religiovnes timbren to þeir god oþer goddes edyficatiounes, theire holie þewes to don.

Sume men folughen two religiounes oþer more, and sume ne folughen neni relygion, ac wonelichest is to folvghen bouten on religioun.

Þe ten mikleste religyounes of þis tyde
Biloghe standen þo ten relygiounes þat moste folughende habben todai:

I.    Cristiente

II. Makometes lawe (on Newe Englyssh Islam ihoten)

III. Hinduysm

IV. Bvddhysm

V.    Schinto

VI. Daoysm

VII. Sikhysm

VIII. Iuhede, þat byþ þe Jeues religiovn

IX. Corien folk religyoun

X.    Bahai

Wrþie religiounes of olde
Svme relygiones weren swiþe grete on ȝore dawen, þat nou no man ne holdyth, oþer wel fewe men.

Þo peples of middel Ameryca helden divers relygyounes on theire riches, so bisne þe Aztek relygyioun, and þe Maȝa religyoun, and þe Mixtec religyoun, and þe Zapotek relygyovn. Smale parties of þyse religiounes þolen ȝet ymeind mid þe Crystientee þet þis landes folk nou folugheþ.

Diuerse heþne religiounes stoden on Evrope er Rome fell, þat comen of þet aunciene Indo-Evropeen ileves. Bisnes therto arn þe Romisshe heþen lawe, and þe Grikkisshe heþen laue, and þe Norneisshe heþen lawe, þe whilch hadden alle manie goddes.

On Egypte ryche me timbrede ful mani stenne temples and þroghes for þe goddes of þeire Egypcien religion, and for theyre soule, þat hit þe bet be aftir live.