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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.

in to þe wrat of God. And þus doctors declaren þe apostols so louid Crist in heyest pouert; and Jerom and oþer seynts kennun how þat prestis now schuld folow Crist in pouert. Þus seiþ Jerom, [Jerom.] It be howuiþ vs clerks to not mishews þe sygnes of our cleregye, for alle þe tokenis of clerks, crien and presenten vertewes to be in hem; þe croun crieþ pouerte; þe cloþing honeste of soule; þe state purte; þe honoring, chastite; þe professioun, religioun; þe office, deuocoun; þe stody, contemplacoun. And þerfor but if we schyn in þeis vertues, þe croun lieþ, þe cloþing, þe honoring, þe professioun, þe office, þe stody, þe contemplacoun. And þer for be þeis we are but peyntid clerks and lied clerkis. And if God schal tyne alle þoo þat spek lesyng, and þat are lesing, and not only hare clerks dampnid, for þei spek lesing, but also for þei luf it moost, and putten hemsilf for it to þe deþ. And eft, þe clerk þat seruiþ to Crists kirke, first schuld interpret þe calling of his nam, and enforce to be þat he is seid; for a clerk in our speche is seid sort, and þer for are men seid clerkis, for þei are of þe Lordis sort, or for þe Lord is þer part; and for he is þe Lordis part, or haþ þe Lord his part, he haut to haue him silk þat he haue þe Lord, and be had of þe Lord. He þat haþ þe Lord, and is had of þe Lord, and seiþ wiþ þe prophet, Mi part þe Lord, may no þing haue wiþ [Psal. xvo.] out þe Lord; þat if he haue ani þing bi syd þe Lord, þe Lord schal not be his part; as if he haue gold, or siluer, or diuerse instru|ments, or possessouns, wiþ þer parts, þe Lord denaieþ not to be his part. If I am þe part of þe Lord, seiþ Jero, and a litil cord of his heritage, I take not part wiþ oþer linagis, but, as a decoun and prest, I life on tiþis, seruing þe auter, I am susteynd of offryng of þe auter; and fode and heling hauing, wiþ hem I schal be content, [1 Tim. vio.] and nakyd I schal folowe þe nakid cros. And Bernard seiþ, It is [Bernard.] iust þat he þat seruiþ þe auter lif þer of, noiþer to do lechery ne prid, nor be richid, noiþer in clerked of pore to be maad riche, ne gloriouse of þe vnnoble, big not to him of þe goodis of þe kirk
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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,
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