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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.

þe niȝt of oure synnes, of þis þat in þe niȝt he was be tan for our synnis, wan his sowle was drery to þe deþ. And also in þe mynd of þe same deþ, he ȝaf his disciplis þis bred, and þe cuppe of þe new testament, and monest to take it, and ete it, doutles to be made like to him, and innewid in to him; he meniþ as mani as wil be in vnite of his body þat is þe kirk. And þis mete is prophita|ble to vs dwelling in þis vnite, boþ to body and to sowle; ffor þe flesch of Crist was peynid for the hele of our body, and his blod was ȝeuen out for þe ȝele of our soule, but profitiþ not to hem þat are out of vnite; werfor þe apostel seiþ, He þat etiþ or drinkiþ [1 Cor. xio.] vnworþily, þat is, oiþer wiþ out deuocoun, or oþer wyse þan it is of þe Lord ordeynd, or dwelling in þe filliþ of synne, he schal be gilty of þe body and blod of þe Lord; þat is, he schal ȝeue peyn for þe deþ of Crist, as if he had slayn him, and he drawiþ spot of good þing to an iuel. And Austeyn seiþ, We sey þis þing þe body and [Austeyn.] þe blod of Crist, þe wilk tan of þe ȝerþ fro þe frutis, and halowd bi gostly praiors, we tak ritli to gostli ȝele, in to memory of þe Lordis passioun; þe wilk, wan it is browt be handis of man to þat inuisible spice, is halowid not but bi þe Spirit of God wirking inuisibily; for God wirkiþ al þingis þat are done in þis wirk bi bodily styrings. Þis is þat we sey, and in all maneris striue to proue þe sacrifice of þe kirk to stond to gidre in two þingis, and to be maad in two þingis to gidre: þat is, þe visible spicis of elements, and inuisible flesch and blod of our Lord Ihu Crist; sacrament and þing of þe sacrament, þat is þe body of Crist; as þe persoun of Crist stondiþ to gidre of God and man, for he is verrey God and man; for ilk þing conteniþ in it silf þe trowþ and þe nature of þoo þings þat it is maad of; þis þing þat is seen is breed, and þe cuppe þat þe ȝeen schewen; but þis þat þe feiþ askiþ to be enformid þe bred is þe body of Crist. Also þe decre seiþ, I Beringary concent to þe holi [Decre.] kirk of Rome, and as þe apostil seiþ, I cnowlech of mowþ and hert, me to hold þe same feiþ of þe sacrament of þe Lordis bord, þe
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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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