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An apology for Lollard doctrines, attributed to Wicliffe. Now first printed from a manuscript in the library of Trinity College, Dublin. With an introduction and notes by James Henthorn Todd.

gospel seiþ, and his apostlis led þe porest lif; and þus he reprouid þe rych, and seid many iuel to cum to hem, and neuerles to sum pouert is not only a þing of saluacoun, but also of dampnacoun. Þerfor hem see pore men þat þei grucche not aȝen God, but be glad of þer pornes; for þus seiþ þe psalm, Lord, good is to me for þu [Psal. cxviiio.] hast lowid me, þat I lere þi riȝtwisnes. And ilk man see þat he bring not him self synfully in to pouert, nor bide not synfully þer in. And se hem religious, þat þei feyn not falsly pouert, nor mak þei not heyet voyd, þat þei purchas hem not peyn but meed. And see þei þat þei oblesche no man to þer maner of pouert, but þat God haþ callid þer to. And alle prelats and prestis vse þei hemsilf in wat pouert þei schuld folow Crist; for þei schuld folow Crist as holi doctors declaren, boþ Jerom, Ambrose, and oþer. And for þe clerar declaring of þis mater we schal vnderstond þat pouert is a forme, a þing þat is seid pore, or litil, or haldun litil in sum maner. And þus sum are gostly pore, and sum bodily; sum vertuously, and sum vicously, or synfully; and sum peynfully; and ilk on of hem in syndry degrees and maners. Gostly pouert is sum tyme wan a þing haþ litil of sum spirit; and þus was Crist most pore, for he had lest of þe spirit of prid, or oþer sinful spirits, ȝhe lesse þan euer had ani oþer man; for al had sum synne but he; and lest he coueited of þis world, boþ of hienes of lif, coueitise of flesche, lest of lordschep, lest of honour worldly, or worldly serueyse. And litil he tuk or coueytid of þis worlds goodis, or worldly seruice, for he tuk of hem but in comyn, as þei weren holden to do seruice to him, in þe performing of þe wark þat God ȝaue him to do. But and wan men wold haue reeft him to haue maad him kyng, he fled it; and ouer þis he porid him self ouer alle oþer; more alle oþer miȝt for taking hede to his kynd and degre þat he is of, and to traueyl þat he toke, and þe seruice þat he dede, and to þe sorow þat he þolid. Was þer neuer creature so pore, ne þat porid him so mich; for ouer hem alle he chesid to be maad þe
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An apology for Lollard doctrines, attributed to Wicliffe. Now first printed from a manuscript in the library of Trinity College, Dublin. With an introduction and notes by James Henthorn Todd.
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Wycliffe, John, supposed author. d. 1384.
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London,: Printed for the Camden Society, by J.B. Nichols,
1842.
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Lollards

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