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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.

ground; but can sey þat wordis of holy writt, and þat are canoniȝed of al holy kirk, soundun not wel, and wel lede vs bi a kirk þat þey seyn erriþ oft, and disseyuiþ and is deseyuid, begiliþ and is bigilid. God Almiȝty kepe vs fro þe malice of þer charmis, and fro þer supersticiositeis, vanites, errors, and desseytis; þat we noþer be disseyuid bi hem, ne disseue oþer men, ne bow not fro Crist tul a noþer, ne hold gospel oþer þan is; for þer is non oþer. And comfort he vs in þe power of his vertu, and in himsilf; and cloþ he vs in his armor, þat we may aȝenstond þe sautis of þe fend; for [Eph. uio.] to vs is no wrestling aȝen þe flesch and þe blud; but aȝen princis and powers, aȝen reulers of þis world, of þeis merknes, aȝen gostlynes of wrechidnes, in heuenly þingis; þerfor tak we þe armor of God, þat we ma aȝenstond in iuel day, and stand perfit in all þingis; gird þe lendis in trowþ, cloþid þe habarioun of rit|fulnes, þe feet schod in þe making redy of Cristis gospel of pes, taking þe scheld of þe feiþ, in þe wilk we may sleckun all þe firun dartis of the enemy. And þe helm of hel, and þe swerd of þe Spirit, þat is þe word of God; in ilk tyme preying, and biseking in spirit, and wakyng þer in ilk tyme, þat we may wet how it is to lif, and to answere to ilk, and to ȝeue resoun of þat feiþ and hop þat is in vs. Þus be comfortid in þe Lord. For now is no wrest|ling to vs aȝen flesch and blud, noiþer to do fleschly batayl, noiþer to sle mennis bodies, nor ȝet to stryfe for fleschly þingis, þat are but after þe flesch. Our wrestling is not only, ne principaly, aȝen þeis þingis, but aȝen princis and powers, rewlars of þis world of þeis merknes, þei are not only fendis and swilk wickid speritis, but þei are also wickid men þat ledun þis world in blindnes, and error, and foli, and malice, and lettun hem to know Crist, and behetun hem grace, wan þey mak hem sikir, ne wit not for þei schal haue it. Wyl þei hemsilf lyuen in þer corrupcoun, wot not how þei may mak hemsilf sikir; þey are rewlars of þe world of þeis derknes, for þei hiȝt men assoyling, wan þei wit not if it be, and þey led
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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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