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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.

boþ himsilf and þeis þat þey assoyl in blindnes, and desseyue boþ. And þus wan þei condemp vniustly a iust man on many sidis, þei led men in blindnes, and þus wan þei erre are desseyuid and dis|seiuen, all þis is in mirknes. And ȝet þey deny to men þe undir|stonding of þe gospel, and seyn men may not undirstond it, and þei graunt þat þei undirstond it not, and þei wel bi deneris. And þus þey may not deme but þat þei lede þis world in mirknes. But it is scham to hem to sey þus, þat ere kirk erriþ, sin he and his kirk is o persone, and also if þe kirk err, men may be in dout of her dedis, wan scho erriþ, and wan not; and were it vnsikir to trow to her canoniȝing, approuing, or afferming, or autoriȝing bifor þat þei proue hem bi sikirar ground; þerfor as God ordeynid men to strif aȝen þeis princis, þat all be drifun in to þe seruice of Crist, and groundid and formid bi him. And oþer goostly þingis of schrewdnes in heuenly þingis, þat are þei þat feynun in ypocrisy and color þingis þat þei tak and understond misser, as boþ holy mennis lif, and oþer vertuous werkis, þat men mis vndirstonden now, and turnen al in to pride and coueteys, and vndir lustis. And þus turnen sacramentis þat are gostly þingis, for gostly þing don, vse þei more in fleschlynes þan in to gostlynes, as in to couey|teis of þe flesch and þe world. Aȝen þeis þingis bihoue men to wrestil in þo maner, as Crist himsilf ded and his apostlis. And þerfor it behouiþ to tak þe armor of Crist, and gird our lindis in his trowþ, þat our affeccoun and al our lif and wark be led bi him, for he is þe first trowþ. And þan we be cloþid þe habarioun of riȝtwisnes, to held to ilk man, þat we howe bi his lawe to frend and fo, to suffreyn and suget, and þat we deme non man, but as God biddiþ; for who is he þat seiþ þis þing schal be don, and þe Lord comaund not, but Balaam seid he miȝt not spek, but þat þe Lord [Num. xxiiio.] put in his mouþ, and þerfor wan he wold haue cursid hem in anger, he blessid hem; and mak ȝor feet to be shod in arayng of þe gospel of pees, þat al our wark and our wille be to mak pees; and [Eph. vio.]
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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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