Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

The repressor of over much blaming of the clergy.

write eny word; as that ech conclusioun of holi feith, (that is to seie, into whos fynding and leernyng mannys resoun [mai come] withoute therto mad re|uelacioun or assercioun fro God) be founde groundid in Holi Scripture; and ech conclusioun, in to whos fynding and leernyng mannys resoun withoute the seid reuelacioun and assercioun and withoute assercioun of eny other creature (as oonli therof teller, asserer, or witnesser,) may come to, is to be founde groundid in philsophie, and in therof principlis so open that no resoun mai aȝens hem seie nay. And ferthermore, that it is noon inconuenience forto holde that oolde writers and holi writers and writers clepid "Holi Doctouris" faileden sum while in her writingis, schal be open ynowȝ in the book clepid The iust apprising of Doc|touris, and sum what in the book clepid The iust apprising of Holi Scripture. And if thilk doctor Henric, which is clepid "The Solempne Doctor," [Henricus Goethals taught theo|logy in the Sorbonne, in the latter part of the thirteenth century, "tanta cum laude, ut totius acade|miæ Parisiensis suffragio Doctor Solennis appellari meruit." Cave, Hist. Lit. s. v.] hadde blessid him silf fro this now seid perel, he and hise felowers [felowis (?), MS. (first hand).] hadden not falle into this dotage, forto seie and holde stifly, that prelatis of the chirche in the clergie ben not very lordis of the vnmouable goodis whiche ben ȝouun or bitake to hem, but thei ben fruyte vsers of tho godis hauyng therwith power to dispense in almes al that is ouer it that is to be take into her nede. ["Primo modo habere bona in communi non diminuit de perfec|tionis ratione, quia habentur etiam à ministris ecclesiæ, ut eis debita ratione servitii et ordinis quem ha|bent in ecclesiâ, et hoc quo ad id quod pro horâ convertunt in usum necessarium. Quo ad residuum enim habent ea, ut aliis, qui nul|lum jus habent in eis, dispensanda." Henr. Gandav. Aur. Quodl. (n. vii.) p. 441. Ed. Venet. 1613.] Certis y mai wel seie that this opinioun is a dotage. For y woot not where yn a man schulde be seid more to dote than to holde aȝens the playn
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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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