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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.

bidding of wirkyng bodily? Sunnar is þe prayor hard of o buxum man, þan tenþowzand of a dispicer; þey seyn hem to tent to lessoun, fynd þey not þer þat þe apostil biddiþ, wat ouerþwartnes is þis to wil not obey to þe lesson? Wil þey tent þer to, and þat þe lessun be rad þe lengar to wil not to do þis þat is red? Who wot not ilk man to profit so mikil þe sunnar as he doþ sunnar þe good þat he rediþ? Also in þe rewle of Seynt Frauncis is red: [Ffrauncis.] Freris lif þey first of þe labor of þer handis, þe secound of þing frely ȝeuun; and wan þeis suffice not, haue þey lefe to axe. And in þe rewle of Seynt Benet; Idilnes is enemy to þe soule. And [Benet.] þerfor in certeyn tymis how þe breþern to be occupied in þe trauel of her handis. And eft certeyn horis in Goddis lessen, fro pasch tul þe kalendis of Octobre, goyng vtterly fro þe first hor tul almost þe fourt, traueil þis þat is necessary fro þe fourt tul þe sixte, tent þei to þe lessoun. And if ned, or pouert of þe place, axe þat þei be occupied to gedre frutis, be þei not euy, for þan are þey verely monkis, if þey lif of þe labor of þer handis, os our fadres and þe apostlis; þis þere. Now þan ilk man ley to his hert to þeis sawis, and oþer, þat he see and understond, and after þe plesing of God perform and fille in dede; schak a wey idilnes, vanite, curiosite, and superfluite, glotany, and lust, and swernes, and oþer þingis þat bringyn in nede. And reyse he dissolut handis, and dresser riȝt weies to his feet, and comfort tremeling knees, in to þe wirkyng of good þingis. Snyb he þe idul, solace hem of litul hert, and be [Sap. iijo.] pesful to all to þe hert, ffor gloriouse is þe frut of good labors; for þe Psalme seiþ, For þu schalt ete þe labor of þi handis, þu art [Psalm. cxxuijo.] blessid, and wel schal be to þe. In þis tyme bi grace, and in tyme to cum bi glory, wan þe Lord schal bid calle þe warke men, and pay hem þer mede, mikil glory and honor for þer good warkis; and þan he þat wyl not now wirk, schal not be punischid wiþ men, but warst of all oþer, for he brekiþ Goddis bidding, and steyliþ aȝen þe Lordis leue þis þat he eytiþ. And so he schal be put wiþ
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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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