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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.

þingis in þe name of our Lord Ihu Crist, in wam we lifin, are sterid, and ben. Þeis sawis and sich oþer like are trowþ endles, and bidun to us to be kepid wiþ out dispensacoun boþ of God and of þe kirk; as þe decre seiþ, þat þow no þing of iuel be schewid to [Decre.] be in swilk þingis, neuerþeles ȝet þei are defendid of þe kirk to feiþful men, þat þei go not aȝen vnder þe spice of diuining to þe wold worschipping of idols. And þus þei are bidun to vs to kepe þat we how not to rette þeis þingis in to God til vs, noiþer þis to cause in vs goostly vertues ne maners, noiþer þei may ȝeue til vs grace ne hele, but if we kepe Cristis biddingis; ne þei may not harme vs, if we do his biddingis, for non aduersite schal noy vs, if wickidnes lord not in vs. And if we do his biddingis, al þingis schal obey to vs, os þei are maad to serue vs, and to be soget and boner to vs, and we how not to vse þeis on ani maner, not but as God biddiþ, and counseiliþ vs; þerfor þis semiþ helful, if ani be vexid wiþ seeknes, or greuid wiþ vniust neiȝbor, or on ani oþer seid greuid in ani maner, þat he say wiþ Job to God, How many [Job. xiijo.] wickidnes haue I and synnis, schewe me my felownies and my defaultis, þat I wit wat me lackiþ, and þat I mend my sarow, and haue mend þe þingis þat I haue misdon, oþer be vnkunning, or infirmite, or be maleyce, and tak þeis disessis for mending and mercy of God, and mikil less þan I haue deseruid; and tak þan swilk medicynis os God haþ maad, and bidun, and desseyue not veynly himsilf, ne incur not more indignacoun, for it is certeyn þat God haþ don many veniaunce for þeis felownies, and al are writun to our disciplin, correccoun, and warning. And who þat nediþ ani wisdam, or help for ani þing, axe of God, as seynt Jame [Jac. io.] seiþ, and al þat is spedful schal plentiuowsly be ȝeuun to him. But neuerþeles, as comyn spech techiþ vs, and Goddis lawe, and clerkis charmis are callid in diuers maner. And þeis þingis may be vsid in syndre maner, þerfor it semiþ to me spedy to clere sum wat þis maner; þerfor I suppose her, þat charmis and enchaunt|mentis
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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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