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

salamon putte adoun on heiȝ prestis & ordeyned anoþer in his [1 Kings ii. [27.]] place, & owtlawid þe firste wiþ-outen axynge helpe of clerkis for traiterie don to salamon & his peple; & treson aȝenst crist & his lawe & his peple is more þan treson aȝenst an erþely kyng & more schulde be ponyschid. & as petir & poul techen, lordis ben ordeyned of god to venge mysdedis and mysdoeris & to preise goode dedis & goode doeris; þanne þe more þat [page 201] a synne is, þe more howen lordis to ponysche it; but þe synne of clerkis is more þan þe synne of oþere lewid men, þanne lordis owen more to ponysche synne of clerkis þanne þe synne of oþer men. & it is more synne & perilous to goddis peple whanne lowere clerkis meyntenen here synne & grete prelatis suffren hem þer-inne, & consenten þer-to for necligence or coueitise, þan whanne prelatis don here bisynesse to distroie synne & pursue wickid clerkis. þer-fore lordis owen to ponysche more wickid clerkis whanne prelatis slepen & fauouren hem in synne for moneye, [meney X.] for ellis myȝtten kyng|domes ben conquerid for [to X.] necligence of coueitouse prelatis, as it was in þe lond of israel. & herefore whanne crist was preised of þe peple, he wente in-to þe temple & wiþ his hondis droof out symonyentis, to ȝeue ensaumple to lordis to do þe same; & þerfore petir & poul outaken not clerkis fro ponyschynge of lordis. þanne siþ goddis lawe ȝeueþ general power to seculer lordis for to ponysche mysdoeris, whi schulden þei not ponysche euyl clerkis, þat most drawen oþere men to synne & so to disturblynge of rewmes? siþ crist suffred paciently wrongful deþ of pilat, þat was a seculer iustise, moche more schulden clerkis suffren riȝtful ponyschinge of here synnys bi seculer lordis; for poul forsok [Acts xxv. 11.] not to take deþ of seculer domes men ȝif he hadde deserued it, & also appelid to þe heþene emperour of rome; & þus it semeþ þat þo clerkis þat wolen not be amended bi seculer lordis dom ben out of mekenesse & pacience & charite, & hiȝen hemself aboue crist & his apostlis aȝenst goddis ordy|naunce bi luciferis pride, & ben cursed anticristis. & ȝit
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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.,
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