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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.

world dwelliþ þer ine, and þerfor þis substaunce of bred dwelliþ þer ine. And in þis mater I remembre þat I haue spokyn and rehersid þe wordis of þe apostil, and oþer doctors, þat þei speke on þis [1 Cor. xo.] mater; for Poule seiþ, Þe brede þat we breken is þe part taken of þe body of Crist. And Austeyn seiþ, Þis þing þat is seen is breed, [Austeyn.] and þat þat þe feiþ askeþ to be enformid þe bred is þe body of Crist. And þe decre, and oþer doctors mani, a corde. And syn þer wordis [Decre.] are canoniȝed, and approuid of holi kirk, oiþer be houiþ to graunt þer wordis, or to denay þe canoniȝing and aprouing of þe kirk; and þat semiþ not good. Þer for I sey as þeis seyncts doun, and trowe as holi kirk trowiþ, and techiþ; þat þe sacred host is verreyli þe body of Crist, for Crist seiþ soo; and þus seiþ Poule, Breþer, fle [1 Cor. xo.] fro worschipping of idols; I speke to ȝow as to wyse men, demiþ þis þing þat I sey; þe cuppe of blessing þat we blesse, is not it þe comining of Crists blood? and bred þat we brek, is it not þe part taken of þe body of þe Lord? for we mani are oo body, and a life þat alle taken part of oo lofe, and of oo cuppe; forsoþ, I tok þis of [1 Cor. xio.] þe Lord, þat I be tok to ȝow; for þe Lord Ihu, in þe niȝt þat he was betrayed, tok bred, and blessid, and brake, and ȝaf his disciplis, and seid, Take and eete all of þis; þis is my body þat schal be trayed for ȝow, do þis in my conmemoracoun. Also he tuke þe cuppe, after þat he sopid, seying, Þis cuppe is a newe testament in my blod; do þis, als oft as ȝe schal take it, in to my conmemoracoun; for als oft as ȝe schal ete þis bred, and drink þe cuppe of þe Lord, ȝe schal schew þe deþ of þe Lord, til þat he cumme. And so, who þat schal ete þis brede, and dring þis cuppe vnworþily, he schal be gylty of þe body and blood of þe Lord. Þerfor man proue him selue, and so ete he of þis bred, and drink of þis cuppe, for wo þat etiþ and drinkiþ vnworþily, etiþ and drinkiþ dome to hymsilf, not deming wisely þe body of þe Lord. And upon þis seiþ Ambrose [Ambrose.] þus, It is a gostly medicyn, and memory of raunsom, bi wilk we deserue greiter þingis, to wilk we are tauȝt to niȝt; not but drery of
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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,
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