Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

The repressor of over much blaming of the clergy.

weren worschipid bi lordschip of tyrannys, et cætera: —certis herto y answere thus: If this processe writun Sapience xiiije. capitulum. meene that thilk maner, which is there sett and seid, ydolatrie biganne in the world, as it semeth that thilk processe schulde it meene, thanne y seie and holde that thilk proces, Sapience xiiije. capitulum., is vntrewe. And forto so holde, whilis y haue strong euydence bi Holi Scripture and bi resoun and bi witnes of him which was a greet clerk among idolatrers, y may be bold ynowȝ. For the Book of Sapience is not a book of Holi Scripture, and the nakid affermyng of the writer and maker of thilk book of Sapience, whos name was Philo, [Pecock got this notion from the Prologue to Wisdom in the Vulgate, which is also prefixed to the book in Wiclif's translation, from which (in its later form) he has cited the above passage. See Wicl. Bibl. vol. 3, p. 85. The prologue runs thus: "Liber Sapientiæ apud Hebræos nusquam est. Unde et ipse stylus Græcam magis eloquen|tiam redolet. Hunc Judæi Philonis esse affirmant."] is not so myche to be bileeued neither so myche to be cleued to [to is added by a later hand.] as it is to bileeue or cleue to Holi Scripture, and to the euydencis which y haue bifore here write and sett for fundacioun of my conceit vpon the bigynnyng and cause of ydolatrie. And ȝit ferther and more to hem y mai sette this skile thus: Whanne euer weren the ful causis of ydolatrie, was ydolatrie: but so it is, that ful causis of ydolatrie whiche y haue bifore here write weren bifore thilk fadiris dai of which the xiiije. chapiter of Sapience spekith, and that as miche and as ful as thei han be a this side the deies of thilk fadir. And no mann [man, MS. (first hand).] maie seie but that tho causis musten [muste, MS. (first hand).] needis bringe forth ydolatrie, whanne euere thei were. Wherfore it is rather to be holde that ydolatrie was bifore the daies of thilk fadir, (as it was aftir hise daies,) than that idolatrie biganne
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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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