Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

The repressor of over much blaming of the clergy.

ensaumpling thoruȝ the al fulnes and likenes of it, muste se bifore whiche ben the circumstauncis vndir whiche or with which or bi which Crist so ensamplid the seid pouerte to preestis, and withoute which he wolde not so haue ensaumplid it to preestis; so that if eny of tho circumstauncis hadden not be had of Crist, he wolde not haue ensamplid it to preestis. And eer that these circumstauncis be knowe whiche thei ben, and eer than the preest (which wolde folewe ther yn Crist) knowe that tho same circumstauncis ben in him lijk myche as thei were in Crist, ellis he ouȝte not folewe Crist in the same euen miche pouerte neither bi comaundement neither bi counseil, more than now eny preest ouȝte folewe in euen like|nes the crucifiyng of Crist or the fasting of Crist as comaundement or as counseil; and that bi cause he knowith not him silf to be vndir thilk state, con|diciouns, and circumstauncis vnder whiche Crist was, and for whiche and bi whiche Crist wolde be so crucified. Forwhi ellis this preest toke upon him a deede, which were not morali vertuose to him; bi cause thilk deede hath not with him hise circum|stauncis, whiche ben to him dewe in doom of resoun. Therfore thilk deede of the preest of in-folewing Crist in the seid pouerte and also in the seid crucifiyng were to this preest viciose; and ȝit Petir writith in his ie. Epistle, the ije. chapiter, to alle Cristen thus: Crist suffride for us, leving to ȝou an ensaumple, that ȝe folewe the stappis of him. And sithen it is so, that preestis in these daies, (thouȝ thei be prelatis, prechers, and successouris to the Apostlis and to Crist,) ben not in lijk state, condicioun, plite, and circumstauncis, neither in lijk neede in which Crist and hise Apostlis weren [were, MS. (first hand).] forto forbere and forsake
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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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