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

& serue in lordis courtis, in worldly offices, & þe deuyl drawiþ wiþ his helpis alle þat he may to helle & þis is clepid mercy & charite; but þis deuelis charite puttiþ oute charite & loue of god & bryngiþ in loue of money & synne & hate of vertues & cristene soulis. crist seiþ it is werk of mercy to conseile at perti hou a man schal best lyue in þis or þis special poynt. þe fend & his seyn it is mercy & charite to conseile men to holde forþ craftis þat þei vsen aȝenst here conscience & excusen hem bi almes, as masse syngynge & makynge of nedles houses & costy. & whanne clerkis schullen conseile lordis & oþere men hou þei may best serue god & saue here soulis in here a-staat, þis conseil is turned in-to worldly wisdom as bildynge of castellis & arraiynge of housholde in lond of pees & of werre. & whanne it [is] reserued to þe holy gost to ȝeue vtterly conseil in special poyntis þat ben not expresly comaundid ne forboden in holy writt, worldly clerkis ful of pride, symonye, coueitise & oþere synnys ȝeuen fulbut conseil aȝenst þe holy gost & aȝenst þe helþe of þe soule for here owene pride & coueitise; & þus conseil of þe holy gost & profit of soulis [AA begins here, the first part of the tract being lost.] is putt bihynde & conseil of þe world & þe fleisch & of sathanas is putt forþ. god biddiþ þat lordis & souereyns schulden in resonable manere chastise here sugetis, seruauntis & children whanne þei trespassen opynly in word or dede aȝenst goddis comaundementis; þe fend & his techen þat suggettis & seruauntis ben cruely beten, pyned, prisoned & sumtyme hangid & drawen for worldly trespas & defaute of here [page 182] seruyce doynge, & vnreuerence aȝenst worldly souereyns, but of trespas & dispit of god & his lawe no charge but mirþe [myȝþe X.] & liynge & iapynge. worldly prelatis of anticrist seyn þat lordis schullen chastise here sugetis of worldly causes, but not of lecherie ne pride ne forswerynge, be it neuere so opyn, for þat longeþ to iurdiccion of prelatis; neþeles ȝif þei han money of þes lecherous þeues þei schullen lie in here cursed synne fro ȝeer to ȝeer, ȝe be al here lif ȝif
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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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