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

chargid alle his prestis to do 1þe same1 [1_1 omitted X.] ; & þes ypocritis wenen þat here dremys & fantasies of hem-self ben contem|placion, & þat prechynge of þe gospel be actif lif, & so þei menen þat crist tok þe worse lif for þis world, & nedid alle prestis to leue þe betre & take the worse lif; & þus þes fonnyd ypocritis putten errour in ihū crist. But who ben more heretikis? ¶ Also þes blynde ypocritis alleggen þat crist biddiþ [Luke xxi. 36.] vs preie euermore, & poul biddiþ þat we preie wiþ-oute [1 Thess. v. 17.] lettynge, & þan we prestis may not preche as þei feynen falsly. but here þes ypocritis schullen wite þat crist & poul vnderstonden of preiere of holy lif, þat eche man doþ as longe as he dwelliþ in charite; & not of babelynge of lippis þat no man may euere do wiþ-outen cessynge, for ellis no man in þis world myȝte fulfille þe comaundement of crist; & þis techiþ austyn & oþere seyntis. & siþ men þat fulfillen not goddis lawe & ben out of charite ben not acceptid in here preiynge of lippis, for here preiere in lippis is abhomynable, as holy writt seiþ bi salomon, þes prestis þat prechen not þe [Prov. xxviii. 9.] gospel as crist biddiþ ben not able to preie god [omitted X.] for mercy, but disceyuen hemself & þe peple & dispisen god & stiren hym to wraþþe & vengaunce, as austyn & gregory & oþere seyntis techen; & principaly þes ypocritis þat han rentes & worldly lordischipes & parische chirchis approprid to hem, aȝenst holy writt boþe [page 167] old & newe by symonye & lesyngis on [& X.] crist & his apostelis for stynkynge gronyngys & a-bite of holynesse & for [fro X.] distroiynge of goddis ordynaunce & for singuler profession maade to foolis & in cas to fendis of helle. þes foolis schullen lerne what is actif lif & contemplatif bi goddis lawe, & þanne þei myȝtten wite þat þei han neiþer þe ton ne þe toiþer, siþ þei chargen more veyn statutis of [& X.] synful men, & in cas of [omitted X.] deuelys, þan þei chargen þe heste of god & werkis of mercy & poyntis of charite. & þe fende blyndiþ hem so moche þat þei seyn in-dede þat þei moten
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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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