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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.

þan he cessiþ to harme hem, or fendiþ hem ouer wyl. And þus þei are seid to help. But wan þis is lokid feiþfuly, þey are wel more hendrid þan helpid, wyl þei are brout in to mis trowþ, and hopiþ to haue helpe wiþ out God. As þe decre declariþ wel: And [Decre.] if þei sey it be semiþ bi holy writ þat enchauntmentis are good, for þe Salm seiþ þus, Synnars are alienid fro þe wombe, þei haue errid [Salm. luiio.] fro þe wombe, þei spek fals þingis; wodnes to hem vp on þe simi|litude of þe serpent, os of def heddir stuppend her ȝeris, þat he here not þe voyce of þe enchaunter, and of þe venyn maker, en|chaunting wisly. To þis we sey þat God bi his ensaumpel re|prouiþ synnars þat stoppun her ȝeris, and wil not here his word, ne cast out þe wold venyn, and be helid, and reseyue vertu to ȝele oþer. It folowiþ not of þis, wiþ out more ground, þat he approuiþ her charm forbydun. For in holy writ he enformiþ men and prestis bi similitudis, and ȝet he forbediþ men to vse hem; as he seiþ, þe oxe knowiþ his weldar, and þe as þe crib of his lord; leding vs bi [Isa. io.] hem to know our God, and reprouing vs if we know him not. And neuerþeles be biddiþ vs, Wel ȝe not be maad as hors or mule; in [Salm. xxxio.] wam is not vnderstonding. And þe apostil seiþ, Wil ȝe not be [1 Cor. xiuo.] maad barnes in wit, but in malice be ȝe litil. Þerfor seek ȝe a pleynar ground, þat wil stable þeis charmis, þat men usen amis. But God for his endles mercy kepe fro þe malice of þer charmis, and charmers, and coniurars, wichis, sortilegeris, and oþer þat are put in þe general sentens and cursing of þe kirk, fro all þat wirkun bi fendis curst, or veynli wiþ out God, and to wickid ende, and namly fro hem þat enforcen to charme in to iuel dedis, or not to obey to Cristis gospel, ne to þe teching of þe apostlis, and prophetis, and feiþful doctors. Ne þat we schuld know it, ne lif þer after, seying þat we may not understond it, ne þe holy doctoris þat han expound it, wilk þe kirk haþ canoniȝid, but wil led us after oþer dremis, and her ymaginacouns, blouing veynly wiþ fleschli wit, tul þei hold not Crist þe hed, ne go after him, ne sett in him þer
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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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