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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.

siluerid, is fals, and may not speke; þey are bout in ilk price, and in hem is no spirit. Wiþ [out] feet þey are born in schuldres, schewing to men þer on nobeley; þey schal be confoundid þat worschipun hem. If þei fal vn to þe ȝerþ, þey schal not rise of hem silf: if ani sett hem vp, þey schal not stand. And if þei þole ani iuel or good of ani, þei schal not quit; þey may not ordeyn a king, ne do a wey, ne ȝef riches, ne quit iuel. If ani vow a vow to hem, and quit it not, þey schal not ax it; þei schal not liuer a man fro deþ, ne pulle a wey þe feble fro þe miȝtiare; þei restore not þe blind to þe syȝt, ne liuer man fro need; þey schal not haue mercy of þe wydowe, ne do wel to þe faderles; þei han no feling; þei are forgid of forgers, and of goldsmiþis; þei schal not ellis be, not but os þe prestis wel; þey schal lefe fals þingis, and repreue þo þat are to cum after; þey reyse not a king to regioun, þey schal not ȝeue reyn to men; þey schal not deme dome, ne liuer þe regioun fro wrong, for þey may no þing; þey schal noiþer curse kyngis, ne blesse; þei schal not schew tokunis in heuen, ne schyn os þe sunne, ne ȝef liȝt as þe mone; after þei schal be rotun, and schal be repreue in þe regioun. Better is þe iust man þat haþ no simulacre, for he schal be far fro repreuis. Þus seiþ þe prophet Baruc. And [Baruc.] þe wise man seiþ, Þei are vnblessid, and her trist a mong þe ded, [Sap. xiijo.] þat han callid goddis þe werk of mannis handis, gold, siluer, and fynding of craft. Or if þe carpenter hew doun of þe wode a tre, and graue it diligently, and forg it, and mak a dwelling for it, setting it in a wal, festining it wiþ irne þat it fal not, loking to it, witing þat it may not help it silf, it is an ymage. And of his substauns, and of his sonis, and of his weddingis making a vow he enquiriþ. He schamiþ not to spek wiþ it, þat is wiþ out sowle: and for hele he prayeþ þe seek, and for lif þe dede, and incalliþ in to help it þat is vnprofitable; and for jurney axiþ of it þat is vnprofitable in all þingis. Blessid þe tre þat riȝtfulnes is don by; but þis þat is maad [Sap. xiuo.] an idol bi hand, is cursid, and he þat maad it. Þerfor respice schal
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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,
1842.
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Lollards

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