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The English works of Wyclif hitherto unprinted.Edited by F. D. Matthew.

syngynge, & oþere deuocions & takiþ gold of men to brynge hom sum del to þis fredom, & so robben hem bi ypocrisye as ȝif it were not leful to do profit to [of X.] mennus soulis wiþ-out dispensynge of anticrist. But now to schewe þe malice & cursednesse of symonye; first, almyȝtti god dampneþ it in þe olde lawe, crist in þe gospel, & is apostlis after þe sendynge of þe [omitted X.] holy gost; first, whanne þe wickid kyng ieroboam made false maunmetis & stockis and worschipide hem for almyȝtty god, bi-cause þat he selde þe prest-hode of þes false goddis for worldly ȝiftis god almyȝtty distroied hym & alle his seed. also, for giesy toke money & cloþis of naaman whanne helise þe prophete his maistir hadde helid hym, þe leper of naaman cleuyd to hym & his generacion euere aftir, in tokene þat gostly lepre, þat is heresie, [here ne, in both MSS.] schulde dwelle wiþ alle syche as taken 4money or 4 [4_4 omitted X.] money worþ for gostly offices; ȝe, wiþ-outen couenant makynge. also god seiþ bi þe prophete malachie to þe iewis þat his wille is not to hem: "For þer nys noon þat shittiþ frely þe doris of þe [Malachi i. 10.] temple." þanne god chargiþ more þe betre offis as makynge of sacramentis & ȝeeuynge of ordris, þat men plese hym not but ȝif þei don hem frely. ¶ Also crist in þe gospel drof out of þe temple hem þat selden & bouȝten þer-inne, ȝee, wiþ his owen hondis, þat we reden not of many oþere synful men þat he tok so moche vengaunce in his firste comynge, in tokene þat he scharpliest schal ponysche hem þat don symonye. Also petir seyde to symon magus; þi money be [[Acts viii. 20.]] wiþ þe in-to loos of dampnacion, for þou gessedest to haue goddis ȝiftee þorouȝ money. ¶ Also symonye is contrarie to al þe hole trinyte & to eche persone þer-of; first to þe fadir, for whanne god wole not and may not brynge vnable men in-to benefices of þe chirche for his riȝtwysnesse & vnablete of hem self, þei presumen to comen in bi symonye; as ȝif þe peny & falsnesse of þe fend were more þan þe myȝt of þe fadir of heuene. also ihū crist is dore bi whiche men schulde entre in-to offices & benefices of þe chirche, &
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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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