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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.

blamid Clementis modir begging, and seid sche schuld wirk wiþ her handis. And also þat Clement Pope hadde writun be nam all þe nedy folk of þe cuntrees, and he þolid not hem to be soget vn to begry, þat þe clensing of baptem had halowid. Also bi lawe cyuil it is not leful to a miȝty body to beg; þerfor be þey war þeis vniust beggars, and ilk man se to wam he ȝeue almis, wat maner and whi, and wherof; for þus biddiþ Crist, Wan þu makist a meyt [Luc. xixo.] or sopar, calle þu not þi riche frendis, neybors, ne cosynis, þat þei bid not þe aȝen and reward be maad to þe. But calle þe pore, blynd, crokid, and feble, þat han not werof to quit þe, and þu schalt be blessid, and it schal be quit þee in þe rising aȝen of riȝtfulmen, for þey may not. And God seiþ bi þe wise man, If þu schalt do [Eccli. xijo.] wel, wit to wam, and þer schal be mikil grace in þi goodis. Do wel to þe iust man, and þu schalt fynd reward of God, þow þu fynd not of him. ȝeue to þe mercyful and reseyue not þe synnar; ȝef to þe good, and to þe mek do wel, and ȝef not to þe vnpitous; forbede þi louis to be ȝeuen to him, þat he be not miȝtiar in hem þan þu. For þu schalt fynd double iuel in all goodis, þat þu dost to him; ffor God haþ synnars to hate, and he schal ȝeld veniaunce to þe wickid. And þus is also bedun, Wil þu not do almis of oker and vsur; þat is, do not swilk defautis to do almis þerof, ne hald ȝow not clen þerof, but if we mak oþer dew satisfaccoun; ffor þe decre seiþ, Þe offring of wickid þing is filid, for God approuiþ not [Decre.] þe gestis of wickid men, nor he lokiþ not in to þe offring of þe [Eccli. xxxiuo.] vnpitous. Nor he schal not be merciful to synnis, in þe multitud of þer sacrifice. Bred of þe nedy is þe lif of þe pore; he þat de|fraudiþ him, he is a man slear; he þat schediþ blud, and he þat doþ fraud to þe hirid hyne are breþer. Perchauns sum man þinkiþ it, are mani riche men auarous and couetous, I haue no synne if I tak it fro hem, and gif it to þe pore; I may geyt mede of þis, þat þei do no good of. But þis þout is sterid to him bi sleyt of þe fend, for if a man gef al þat he took, þis is not to be wenid almis,
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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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