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

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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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"The English works of Wyclif hitherto unprinted.Edited by F. D. Matthew." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/AEH6713.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.

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Capitulum 31m.

Clerkis possessioners pursuen crist to deþ & bitraien him for stynkynge drit; for þei sclaundren, cursen & pursuen falsly to deþ trewe techeris of cristis lif & goddis hestis þat

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wolden saue mennys soulis bi trewe & free prechynge of þe gospel wiþ-outen glosynge & beggynge; & þei suffren, helpen & meyntenen false prechouris, gloseris, to robbe þe peple bi fals beggynge, bi symonye & ypocrisie & blasphemye putt vpon crist; so þat [X inserts þe.] possessioners may holden forþe here seculer lordischipis & worldli lif aȝenst goddis lawe, in dis|troiynge & blasphemynge of cristis lif and cristene feiþ, in distroiynge of seculer lordis & oþere prestis & curatis & of comunes also, as it is seid bifore; & as crist seiþ þis false sclaundrynge & pursuynge of cristis disciplis for þis ende is pursuynge of crist & of þe holy trinyte.

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