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An apology for Lollard doctrines, attributed to Wicliffe. Now first printed from a manuscript in the library of Trinity College, Dublin. With an introduction and notes by James Henthorn Todd.

howiþ to trauel, and to be bisi, to ding doun of þe contrari; þe cerymoynis and þe lawis of þis hous are þe biddingis and þe conseyl of þe gospel, ȝeuun be Crist and his Apostls, and ensaumplied be life, to þe wilk þe prest schuld put to þe hert, þat is þe strengþ of his luf, and wiþ þe eeris and een of his hert, he schuld vnderstond hem, and kepe hem in himsilf, and ken þe peple to kepe al þingis þat Crist haþ comoundid. But alien sonis vncircumsicid in hert and flesch, are þei þat serue not Crist in spirit, ne in fleschly dedis gostly. For þei enter not to þe lif bi þe maner of Crist in meknes, pouert, paciens, and labour, and oþer vertuus dedis: but þei enter for to lif in prid of þe world, and worldly riches, and lustis of þe flesch, and þerfor þey are alien, and wiþ swilk cursidnes þei polewt þe hous, for þei leede mani in to synne, and sterun God in to wraþ, and causun þat God is holdun vniust. And þus þei vndo þe couenaunt; wil þei kepe not þe office of presthed in þat maner þat Crist bad, but þey putt þe kepars of þe obseruaunce to hemsilf. Wen þei welun þat þei kepe more specialy þe þings, and þe biddingis enioynid of men, and streytar þan biddingis and þingis enioynid of God; and namly, wan þey putt kepars to gedre temporal þings to hem, after þer decre, [rather] þan to gedre souls to Ihu Crist. But here wat folowiþ. Sich alien and vncircumsisid schal not enter in to þe sanctuary, for as þe Lord forbediþ swilk to be ministris, so he storiþ hem her þat þei schal not accept grace, wil þei are swilk, ne schal not minister grace to þe puple, but swilk þat han gon a wey fro God in to error and ignoraunce, and swilk idolatrie, worschiping man aȝen Goddis bidding, and doing oþer iuel: þei schal bere þer wickidnes, as þei han synnid, so schal þei be punischid, and þei schal be huscheris and portars; for as þei opunid synnis to þe peple and brout hem ine, so schal þei enduce hem in to peyn, and þus schal þei scle þe brent offrendis. But prestis and leuits, þe sonis of Sadok, þat han kepid þe cerymoynis of þe sanctuari, þei schal niȝe to minister to me; but swilk be
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An apology for Lollard doctrines, attributed to Wicliffe. Now first printed from a manuscript in the library of Trinity College, Dublin. With an introduction and notes by James Henthorn Todd.
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Wycliffe, John, supposed author. d. 1384.
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London,: Printed for the Camden Society, by J.B. Nichols,
1842.
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Lollards

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