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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.

þe ȝerþ. And idromauncers, þat þus wirkun bi þe watir. Ayero|mauncers þat wirkun bi þe eyre. Piromauncers þat wirkun bi þe fire. And spices are content vnder þeis maney, as doctors declarun wel; Austeyn, Gregor, Basil, and Isidor, Crisostom, Lincoln, and oþer. And holy writ in many places dampniþ þeis þingis. And þus sortilegers þat settun þer curst finaly in þe cauil, and wenun þat þis lediþ or bowiþ ani þing finali to profit ende. And þus Austeyn [Austeyn.] seiþ, þat þer are þowsand spices of veyn supersticoun, þat is, þing veynly ordeynid, and veynly vsid, and veynly þat men atristun in, and all silk þingis are forbidun ȝe in þis, þat þu schalt not tak his name in veyn. And syn God haþ forfendid þeis þingis, and holi doctoris boþ and þe kirk, as is oft declarid, it is veyn and supersti|coun, and þe kind of idolatrie to vse such þingis aȝen þus mani biddingis, autoritees, witnes and counseilis, be for þat man may proue bi holy writ, and wittnes of seyntis, for þis is soþ, þat is not contrari to himsilf, ne holy writt contrary to itsilf, ne feiþful doc|toris contrary her to, þat seyn to us how þeis þingis are iuel. And if men sey þat swilk þingis are spedeful, for God haþ ȝeuun vertu in herbe, in word, and in ston, and men seen oft at ee þat swilk þingis help, it is soþ þat God haþ ȝeuen vertu in all þingis, þat he haþ maad and ordeynid how þei schal be vsid, and in to wat ende. And so how ilk man to vse hem as he ordeyniþ, but not aȝen his ordinauns, ne wiþ out. And so þis ȝeuiþ not proue, þat þei profit hangid a bout þe nek; bi for þei men fyndun writun and bidun. And þan men seyn swilk þingis help; þis is no certeyn wiþ outen bettar proue, or grounde; for as doctors declarun wel, sum tyme men wen to see a þing wan þei see it not, os is schewid bi jogulors, dremers, and rafars. And sum tyme man is holpun bi treyst þat he haþ in o þing, or bi dred entrid, and not bi þat þing as phisek techiþ and experiens. And sum tyme men wenun to be helpid, whan he is mikile more hendrid. And wan þe fend haþ men in daunger, sum tyme he deseiuiþ hem tul þey do him sacrifice, and
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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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