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

not to o synguler place as a tey dogge, & bi þis þei may most sikirly saue hem self & helpe here breþeren; for now þei ben free to flee fro o cite to a noþer whanne þei ben pursued of [Matthew x. 23.] anticristis clerkis, as biddiþ crist in þe gospel. Also nowe þei may best wiþ-oute chalyngynge of men goo & dwelle among þe peple where þei schullen most profite, & in couen|able tyme come & goo aftir stirynge of þe holy gost, & not be bounden bi synful mennus iurdiccion fro þe betre doynge. ¶ Also now þei suen crist & his apostlis neer, in þus takynge almes wilfully & frely of þe peple þat þei techen, þanne in takynge dymes & offryngis bi customes þat synful men ordeynen & vsen now in þe tyme of grace. ¶ Also þis is more medeful in boþe sidis as þei vnderstonden bi cristis lif & his apostlis; for þus þe peple ȝeueþ hem almes more wilfully & deuoutly, & þei taken it more mekely & ben more besy to lerne, kepe & teche goddis lawe, & so it is þe betre for boþe sidis. ¶ Also bi þis manere myȝtte & schulde þe peple ȝeue frely here almes to trewe prestis þat trewely kepten here ordre & frely & opynly tauȝten þe gospel, & wiþ-drawen it fro wickede prestis, & not be constreyned to paie here tiþes & offringis to open cursed men & [X inserts not.] meyntene hem in here opyn cursednesse; & þus schulde symonye, coueitise & ydelnesse of worldly clerkis be leid doun, & holynesse & trewe techynge & knowynge of goddis lawe be brouȝt in, boþe in clerkis & lewid men. ¶ Also þus schulde stryuynge, pledynge & cursynge for dymes & offryngis & hate & discord among prestis & lewid men be endid, & vnyte, pees & charite meyntened & kept. ¶ Also þes benefices bi þis cours þat men vsen nowe bryngiþ in worldlynesse & nedeles bisynesse aboute worldly officis, þat crist & his apostlis wolden neuere [page 209] take vpon hem; & ȝit þei weren more myȝtty, more witti, & more brennynge in charite to god & to þe peple, boþe to lyue þe best manere in hem self & [omitted AA.] to teche oþere men. ¶ Also coueitise & worldly bisynesse [sikirnesse X.] of clerkis & occasion of coueitise & worldlynesse of þe peple

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Title: The English works of Wyclif hitherto unprinted.Edited by F. D. Matthew.
Author: Wycliffe, John, d. 1384.
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Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by Trübner & co.,; 1880.

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