The English works of Wyclif hitherto unprinted.Edited by F. D. Matthew.
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The English works of Wyclif hitherto unprinted.Edited by F. D. Matthew.
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Wycliffe, John, d. 1384.
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London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by Trübner & co.,
1880.
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Þe twentiþe; þat a prest of good lif & deuout & trewe prechour of goddis lawe is dispised, hatid & pursued of worldly curatis, & a fals prest of worldly lif & aray þat suffren men wexe roten in here cursed synne is louyd, preised & cherischid among 1such synful folis;1 for þei seyn þat such a good prest is 2an ydiot and2 an ypocrite & sclaundriþ men of holy chirche & lettiþ men to do here deuocion to holy chirche; & bi here dom a prest þat liueþ comyn worldly lif & stiriþ no men to wraþ bi reprouynge hem of here opyn synnes doþ moche worschipe to holy chirche & encresceþ mennus deuocion; & þus for here coueitise & pride trewe prestis ben put abak & dispised, & ydel prestis & worldly be preised & cherischid, & þis makiþ many men slowe in good lif & prechynge and manye [page 131] to loue worldly lif & ydelnesse 4& vanyte.4
