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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.

to preche, and þan he is boundun þer to. And þis semiþ bi þe gospel þat seiþ þus. After þat Crist had ordeynid his apostlis, and [Luc. 10.] sent hem to preche; after he assignid seuenty and two disciplis, and sent hem be forn his face, two and two, in to ilk place and cite widir he was to com, and bad hem preche þe kyndum of God; vpon wilk seiþ an expositor þus. Crist sent his two and seuenty disciplis, and ȝaue power to performe it. And sin it is prouable þat þei were not prests, for þan had þei ben bischopis, and apostlis, but þei were dekunis, lowar þan prestis, as Steuyn, and silk oþer þat is redd of in apostlis dedis, it semiþ þat Crist, sending hem to þis office, sendiþ in his ordeyning al oþer heiar, as prestis, to þe office; to þe same soundun þe wordis of þe prelat ordening dekunnis. Were fore in þe fourt book of sentence, þe fowr and twenti distinc| [Mag. sent. lio. 4. 24 d.] coun, þus is writun; To þe decoun it perteniþ [to] stond niȝe þe prest, and minister to him all þings þat are don in þo sacraments of Crist, to bere þe crose, to preche þe gospel, and þe pistil; for as þe olde Testament to þe redars, so is bedun to dekunnis to prech þe newe. And þis same seiþ Seint Ysidor, as it is put in þe decrees. [Ysidor.] For þi seiþ Seint Gregori, Poule seiþ to Thimoþe, þat þe prest be [Gregor. in past. c. 5. and dt. 43.] miȝti to exort in al doctrin, and argu hem þat aȝen seyn þe feiþ. þer for is seid bi þe prophet Malachie, þe lippis of þe prest schal [Mal. 2o.] kepe sciens, and men schal ask þe law of his mowþe, for he is þe aungel of þe Lord of hostis, þer for þe Lord monestiþ be þe prophet Ysaie seing, Crie, cese not, vphauns þi vois os a trompe. Who [Ysaie 58o.] þat niyþ to prest hed he takiþ þe office of a criar, þat he go criing for þe goming of þe iuge þat ferfulli folowiþ. Werfor þe prest, going in and out, dieþ if he go wiþ out þe sound of preching. But here sum glosun and seyn, þat preching is her vnderstonden reding at þe messe, and þat Gregori spak þis of curats; but swelk men be howuen tak hede, þat bi þis are not curats excusid þat prechun not; and it folowiþ not þer of þat simple prestis are excusid bi þis, for he spak to curats, and be þei ware þat þei knitt not falsly a wey
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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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