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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.

he haþ aȝen hem þat han þe gospel writun hanging a bout þe neke for ȝele. Wan þei han hirid it in þe kirk and are not ȝelid, and axiþ weþer is þe gospel in leuis of wordis, or in vertu. If it were in þe leuis, þu hangist it resounably, but now it is not in þe leuis of þe parchemyn, but in þe vertu; and bi hering þu art not ȝelid, þerfor in veyn þu hangist þe leuis a bout þi neke. And Jerom [Jerom.] seiþ, Wene we not þe gospel to be in wordis of writingis, but in wit, not in ouer face, but in þe merowe, not in þe leuis of wordis, but in rot of resoun; þus seiþ he. But worschiping is tan on mani maner wis; I suppose þat we how not to honor þe gospel þus, þat is to sey, þe henk, or þe parchemyn, and þe figeris; wening werk|yng to be gostly in hem, or þe spirit of God, or þe godhed; noiþer þat swilk writing bi hem silf drif a wey fendis, or seknes, or kep fro harmis, as sum not vndirstonding wel gostly þingis demun; þow we, taking ȝed to þe þing, may after agre worschip such þingis writun, as men seeng þe letter or selle of a lord, may bow him, or do of his hod; and to þis sentens I suppose Austeyn to [Austeyn.] cord. If he comend hem þat worschipun þe gospel writun or oþer writingis, not for þei rettid hem in hem self holiar or vertuosar, or more effectual, þan oþer, but for þe honor and reuerens þat þei haue finaly in þe þing takun bi hem. But if þu sey, bi þe towching of Cristis body mani were helid, and bi þe towching of his cloþis, as þe gospel schewiþ, and þe apostle sent sudarijs to put on men schaking wiþ fendis, and þei were dryuen a wey. And it is seid, þat a woman maad an ymage of Crist, and an herbe bi touching þer of reyceyuid þe vertu of heling, þer for man may tryst in swilk þingis. And to þis I seid þus, bi sentens of doctors, þat Crist is more excellent and vertuosar þan oþer createris; þe se|cound, þei þat were helid were not helid sympli bi þe touching, but for þe trust þat þei strechid finaly in to God. And for þis seiþ Crist, Þi feiþ haþ maad þe saue. And eft seiþ þe bok, þat noiþer [Marc. uo.] herb ne plaster helid hem, but þe word of God, þat heliþ al þing;
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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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