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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.

not þe secound; experiens of dede prouiþ þat it is þus, and þus him be howuiþ to be cursid, but if he tak boþe, and cursid if he tak oiþer þe ton or þe toþer. Þe fourtent. God biddiþ þu shalt not sey fals witnes aȝen þi neyȝbor, nor lye, nor forsuere þe, nor deme vniustly, nor aȝen sey þe trowþ in no maner; and mani lawis of þe kirk and sawis of doctors de|claryn þis, and enioynen mani peynis for þe trespassors her of. But now clerkis practisyn bi þer new lawis þat a iuge schal witnes bi his dome, þat an oþer mannis þing is myn, and aȝenword myn a oþer mannis, for þe fals witnes of two or of þre aȝen þe trowþ, and if [? ȝif] þe sentens to sle þe innocent and curse þe giltles, ȝa þow he wit þat it is fals. Also if a man be falsly accusid bi two witnessis, if he deney it þat he is accusid of, and graunt þe soþ, þan he schal be condempnid þer of as gilty. Þe xvj. [xv]. Goddis law biddiþ help þe supprissid, jugiþ to þe fadirles, defendiþ þe wydow, and how temporal lordis ow to þole no wrong be don; and mani doctors and lawis and resoun acordyn to þis. But now crien clerkis bi þer new lawis, þat if a man be cursid fourty dayes, þow he be cursid wrongly, and þat þan temporal lordis schal, bi þe bischops signifying or bidding, put him in to prisoun, til he suget him to þer dome, þow it be vniust. Þe xvij. [xvj]. If þat a man wed in to wif in þe face of þe kirk a cosyn of his, þe wilk God forbediþ him to towch, and after þis cosynage is knowen to him, but it may not be known formably bi proue after þe court of plete, ȝef þe woman after axe þe fleschly det, þow it be aȝen þe bidding of God to pay it, he schal be cursid, but if he tret her as his wif. And if he do it, he brekiþ þe bidding of God, and in þis cas he schal not be cursid bi her dome, or ellis he schal dwel cursid þe daies of his lif, efter þe process of þe new decretal wiþ Jon Andrewe. And þis inconuenient mai not be voydid wt mani moo oþer. Þe xviij. [xvij]. Þe apostil seiþ, Ilk þing þat is not of þe feiþ is synne. And þe lawe acordiþ, þat he þat doþ aȝen [Ro. xiuo.]
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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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Lollards

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