Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

The repressor of over much blaming of the clergy.

Ferthermore thilk proces writun Acts xvije. capitulum. toward the eende, which Poul seide thus: God that made the world and alle thingis that ben in it, this, for he is Lord of heuen and of [of is added by a later hand.] erthe, dwellith not in templis mad with hond, neither is worschipid with mannys hondis, neither hath nede of eny thing; for he ȝeueth lijf to alle men and brething and alle thingis, and made of oon alle the kinde of men forto enhabite on al the face of the erthe, deter|mynyng tymes ordeyned and termes of the dwelling of hem, to seke God, if perauenture thei feelen him [him is interlineated by a later hand, but the sign of omission is by the first hand, apparently.] or fynden; thouȝ he be not fer fro ech of ȝou, for in him we lyuen, moven, and ben, weerneth not neither forbedith alle graued ymagis to be had and vsid in the chirche. Forwhi Poul dooth no more in thilk processe, than that he makith this skile: "God is such oon, that he nedith not to haue housis ouer him for to couere him fro reyne and fro othir sturne wedris, neither he nedith housis to be lockid, leste men steele awey him or his godis; and these ydolis or symylacris, whiche ȝe worschipen here in this hous, neden these thingis; and therfore ȝe maken to hem these thingis. Wherfore noon of these ydolis whiche ȝe worschipen in these housis, (whether thilk ydol be Saturne or Iupiter or Mars or thilk ydol which ȝe clepen Vnknowen God,) is verri God." Certis the proces there had weel seen schewith weel, that more than this Poul dooth not there in thilk processe; and therfore thilk processe hath no strengthe forto weerne ymagis of God to be had and vsid in the chirche, so that thei be not worschipid as for very God him silf. Also the proces writun iiije. Reg. xvije [Read xviije] . capitulum., in which it is writun into the commending
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The repressor of over much blaming of the clergy.
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Recock, Reginald, bp. of Chichester, 1395?-1460?
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London,: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts,
1860.
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Lollards
Great Britain -- Church history

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