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

gracious ȝifte, whanne he ȝeueþ to hem knowynge & vnder|stondynge of treuþes nedful for to saue mennus soulis bi, & grace to assente in here herte to suche treuþes; & þis men clepen feiþ. & of þis feiþ cristene men ben more certeyn þan ony man is of ony [only X.] worldly þing bi ony bodily witt; & þer|fore crist reproueþ most defaute of bileue, boþe in þe iewis & in his disciplis, & þerfore cristis apostlis preieden [preiseden X.] most to haue stabilnesse in feiþ; for it is unpossible þat ony man plese god wiþ-outen feiþ, & so crist preide principaly þat þe feiþ of petir & oþere disciplis schulden not faile endeles; & goddis lawe telliþ hou bi feiþ seyntis wrouȝten alle here grete wondris & meruailis þat þei diden. & ȝif anticrist seie here þat eche man may [omitted X.] feyne þat he haþ riȝt feiþ & goode vnderstondynge of holy writt ȝouyn of god whanne he is in errour, late a man seke in alle þingis trewely þe honour of god & lyue iustly to god & man, & þanne god wole not faile to him in ony þing þat is nedful to hym, neiþer in feiþ ne vnderstondynge ne in answere aȝenst his enemyes. & for feiþ is scheld of cristene men aȝenst alle temptacions of þe fend & ground of alle vertues, þerfore sathanas ordeyned þes newe sectis to be so manye & haue name of kunnynge & holynesse bifore alle oþere, & groundiþ in hem pride, enuye, coueitise, glotonye, lecherie & ypocrisie to walwe among þe peple & stire hem bi word & ensaumple to be vnstable in þe feiþ; & stireþ heiȝe worldly prelatis to be fauourable to hem & meyntenen hem in þis ypocrisie to coloure here owene synne þer-bi, & to lette treue men to preche pleynly & frely cristis gospel & þe hestis of god for sauynge of mannus soule. & here-bi & [bi] many moo disceitis schulden cristene men knowe how þes newe religious ben false prophetis & cursed sectis, of whiche crist & his apostlis prophecieden bifore, & tauȝten men to knowe hem bi here werkis, [clerkis AA.] þat ben ypocrisie, coueitise & meyn|tenynge of synne bi fals prechynge, flaterynge, fals conseilynge & sclaunderynge of trewe men, [omitted X.] & makynge [maken X.] men siker of
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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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