Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

The repressor of over much blaming of the clergy.

be proued bi the descripcioun of religioun ȝouun and putt bifore in the [viije.] [A space is left in the MS. for the number.] chapiter of this present ve. partie, and also mai be proued bi this that the sacramentis, which God made and ȝaue ouer the lawe of kinde to the Iewis, was a [a is interlineated in a later hand.] religioun, as is now bifore proued in this present chapiter; and therfore bi lijk skile thes sacramentis, whiche God ȝeueth now ouer the lawe of kinde to Cristen men, ben a reli|gioun;—it folewith [folewe, MS. (first hand), the correction being incomplete.] that the hool lawe now assigned to Cristen men, mad of the lawe of kinde and of Cristis sacramentis, is a religiose lijf to hem: ȝhe, and folewith ferther that euen as it was sufferable and alloweable of God, that men lyuyng in the oold time vnder the hool lawe of Iewis founden other religiosite than the religiosite which God assigned immediatli to hem, and settiden thilk religiosite so bi hem founde to the al hool lawe of kinde and of religioun, which God to hem assigned, as is bifore schewid in the next chapiter of the sones of Ionadab the sone of Recab; so for lijk skile of resoun no man mai weerne, denye, or seie nay, but that men now lyuyng vndir the lawe of Cristen men mowen fynde other religioun or othere religiositees than the religioun or religiosite [the religiosite, MS. (first hand).] of the sacramentis, which Crist hath assigned immediatli to hem, and mowen sette thilk religiosite so bi hem founde to al the hool lawe of kinde and of religioun, that is to seie, of Cristis sacramentis; (which hool lawe of kinde and of hise sacramentis Crist hath to hem immediatli assigned;) namelich sithen the Apostlis and the disciplis of the Apostlis (whiche disciplis weren hiȝe in wisdom and in auctorite and in fame in the daies of the Apostlis for to reule and gouerne
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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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