Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

The repressor of over much blaming of the clergy.

of God is good, and no thing is to be cast awey, which is taken with doing of thankingis, for it is halowid bi the word of God and bi preier;) thou, putting forth these thingis to britheren, schalt be a good mynystre of Iesus Crist, nurischid with wordis of feith and of good doctrine, which thou hast gete; but eschewe thou vncouenable fablis and eeld wom|menys fablis. Also ije. Thim. iije. capitulum., in the bigyn|nyng, Poul seith to Bischop Thimothie thus: Wite thou this thing, that in the laste daies perilose tymes schulen neiȝe, and men schulen be louyng hem silf, coueitose, hiȝe of bering, proude, blasphemers, not obedient to fader and modir, vnkinde, cursid, with|oute affeccioun, withoute pees, false blamers, vn|contynent, vnmylde, withoute benignite, traitouris, ouerthwert, bollun with proude thouȝtis, bliynde louers of lustis more than of God, hauyng the liknes, of pitee, but denying the vertu of it; and eschewe thou these men. Of these thei ben that persen housis and leden wommen caitifis chargid with synnes, whiche ben led with dyuerse desiris, euermore leern|yng and neuermore perfitli comynge to the science of treuthe. And as Iannes and Mambres [Mambres is the Vulgate reading, whence the early English translations were made.] aȝenstoden Moyses, so these aȝenstonden treuthe, men corruptid in vndirstonding, reproued aboute the feith; but fer|ther thei schulen not profite, for the vnwisdom of hem schal be knowe to alle men, as hern was. But thou hast geten my teching, et cætera. Also Tite ie. capitulum., in the myddil, Poul seith to Thimothie Bischop of Crete thus: Ther ben manye vnobedient and vein spekeris and desseyueris, moost thei that ben of circumcisioun, which it bihoueth to be reproued, whiche subuerten alle housis, teching whiche thingis it bihoueth not, and that for the loue of foul wynnyng. And oon
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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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