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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.

mater. Crist seid to þe Jewis, ȝe ben of þe fader þe fend, and wel do þe desir of ȝor fader, for he was manslear fro þe biginning. And so to þe propos, Whas doctrine any folowiþ, his disciple he is. And Crist seiþ, he þat is not wiþ me, he is aȝenis me. And soþly my [Matt. xijo.] warks a cordyn not to þe warks of Sathanas, for I a cord in no þing wiþ him, but al vtterly we are contrari; for I mak beningne wyl saue sowlis; he prowd, enuious, couetous, to tyn hem; I gedre to gidre vertuys wiþ my preching; he scateriþ and departiþ fro þe vnite of þe kirk. Þis seiþ þe glose. Þerfor who þat vsiþ swilk werks [Glose.] is disciple of anticrist, and anticrist. For Jon seiþ in his epistle, [1 Jo. iio.] Sonnis is it þo last hour, and as ȝe han herd for anticrist comiþ, now are many anticristis maade, werfor we wot þat is it þe last hour. Ilk spirit þat vndoþ Ihu Crist is not of God, and þis is anticrist, [Ibid. iuo.] of wom ȝe han herde þat he comiþ, and now he is in þe world. Wer þe glose; os Austeyn seiþ: Ilk man axe her his conciens weþer [Austeyn.] he be anticrist. Ilk one contrary to Crist is anticrist, and þe tung a lone is not to be axid, but þe lif. Poul seiþ, Þei witness hem to [Tit. io.] know God, but in dedis þey denay. Als many as þe kirk haþ for sworn men, fraudars, misdoars, sortylogers, spousbrekars, drunk|unsum men, vsurers, and who euer is contrari to þe doctrin, and to þe word of God, he is anticrist. If þu luf synnis, be [þu] wiþ in, be þu wiþ out, and if þu be contrari to Crist, be þu wiþ in, be þu wiþ out, þu art anticrist, be þu wiþ in, be þu wiþ out, þu art caff. Þis seiþ Austeyn. And þus seiþ Lincoln, in a sermoun: Þe [Lincolne.] office of prelacy passiþ alle oþer in charge, syn þe principale and þe finale wark of Crist þat he cam for in to þis world is þe quiking of soulis; and þe proper wark of Sathanas, and moost entent of him, [who] is a manslear fro þe biginning, as [is?] sleyng and mortifying of sowlis: werfor scheperds, clepid þe persoun of þe verrey schep|herd Ihu Crist, nouȝt schewing þe gospel, þof þei ekid not oþer malice ouer, þey are anticrists, and Sathanas transfigurid in to an aungel of liȝt; þeuys priuey and opun slears and traytors of þe schep,
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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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