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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.

toneris and of diuineris, þat gnasten wiþ þer teþ in her chauntingis, weþer not a peple schal seek visioun of her God, for þe quek and þe dead? Þerfor goþ more to þe lawe and to þe witnes, þat if þei sey not after þis woord, morow liȝt schal not be to hem. Also þus writiþ Austeyn, and is put in decrees, Feiþful prestis ammonest [Austeyn.] þe peple, þat þei wit þer wichecraftis and enchauntingis to may do no þing of remedy to ani seknes of man, ne of best, noiþer to best langering, halting, or sare, or doing to lech ani þing, but þat þei are panteris of þe wold enemye, bi wilk þe fals fend enforciþ to deceywe mankynd. If ani clerk vse þeis þingis be he degradid, and þe lewid man þat vse þeis þingis be cursid. And eft þus, A [Austeyn.] waytiþ not þeis Egipcian daies, þat we call dysmal, ne kalendis of Janiuer, in wilk sum seyingis, and comessacouns, and ȝeftis, are ȝeuyn to gidre, as in to begynning of good ȝere, ne monþis, ne tymys, ne ȝeris, ne dayes, ne course of þe sunne, ne þe mone, for ȝe þat a waytun þeis or ani oþer diuiningis, desteneys of auguris, or tenten to hem, or consenten to þe waytars vnprofitably, and wiþ out cause, he howiþ more to his dampnacoun þan to his saluacoun; or þei þat seek bi noumbre of lettres, or of þe men [moon?], and figer of nigramauncy, þe lif or deþ of þe seek, or welþ or disess to cum, or þei þat tentun to dremis writun, and falsly tytlid in Daniel's name, or canelis þat are callid of þe holy apostolis, or chitering of briddus, or sich oþer, for hous to be maad, or weddingis to be couplid, or in gedering of herbis, seiþ ani charme but þe pater noster, or þe crede, or puttiþ ani strowis wiþ figeris writun on men for any infirmite, or vp on bestis, or tenden to wiche falsnes in hailes or tempestis, þey þat trowen to swilk þingis, or gon to þe hous of hem, wite þei hem to haue brokyn þe cristun feiþ, and þe baptem, and to be paynims and apostatais, þat is goyng o bak, and to be þe enemyes of God, and greuowsly to haue incurrid his wraþ, be [but?] if þei mend bi þe penaunce of þe kirk be recounsilid; for þe apostil seiþ, Weþer het ȝe or drynk or do ani oþer þing, do all [1 Cor. xo.]
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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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