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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.

liflod, and haue al þingis in comyn. But now bi new lawis, clerkis propriun to hemsilf temporal þingis as seclereis, and not only to liflod and hyling, but to lust and worldly hynes. Werfor it folowiþ, þat oiþer þeis seyntis bar fals wittnes, or þat swilk lawis, bi wilk þis maner of hauing is defendir, ar contrari to hem, and to holy writ; or ellis þat clerkis now are fals witnes aȝen þer lawis, and þefis, and refars, and fals intrewsars. Þe fifth. Þe apostil seiþ, no man halding bi kniȝthed to God, inpliȝeþ him to worldly [2 Tim. ijo.] bisines; and doctors a cordyn, as is put in þe law. But now al most is no worldly bysines þat ministres of þe auter are not inplied in, as is opun in þer dedis; werof it folowiþ þat þei lif contrari to holy writ, and to þe decrees of hold fadres; and if þei haue ani law defending hem in þis, þan is þe law contrari as þer lif is; if þey haue not, þan þei lif vnlawfuly in þis. Þe sixst. Þe apostil seiþ, no man tak honor to him, but if he be callid of God. And [Heb. vo.] after þe decrees of senctis, as is opun in canoun, as it schal be ȝeuen to him þat is callid and forsakiþ, so it schal be naytid him þat offreþ himsilf. But now new lawis kennen þat he þat most offriþ him, and most persewiþ wiþ ȝeftis of hand, tunge, or seruise, he schal be preferrid to þe holiar and abler, bi vertu of a ded bulle. Þe seuynt. God biddiþ þu schalt not do þeft, nor coueyt þe goodis of þi neiȝbor, but ȝeld to ilk man þat is his; and of þe de| [Exod. xxo.] crees of seyntis, if þu haue foundun ani þing and not restorid it, þu hast reft it. And eft, synnis are so mykil þe greuowsar as þey hold and schuld lengar bynd. But now new lawis kennyn prescrip|coun, þat if ani be in possessioun of oþer mennis þingis by a cercle of ȝeris, he schal ioi it as his oune, as is brokyn of Goddis bidding mak riȝt. Þe heyt. Crist biddiþ in þe gospel to his vicar, turn þe swerd in to þe scheþ; and wordis of doctors and decrees acordyn [Joh. xuiijo.] þat prestis how not to vse þe bodily swerd wiþ þer oune hand, and mani peynis are enioinid in new lawis for breking of þis. But þis not aȝenstonding, þei han founden a new ordinaunce and indul|gencis
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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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