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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.

if þis be ȝeuen or despendid to þe pore þat is getun of leful þingis. ffor he þat takiþ iuel in þis entent þat he ȝeuiþ wel, he is more [Gregor.] greuid þan helpid; þerfor þat we tak no þing vnder color to do almis wiþ synne, þe scripture for bediþ, seying, Offringis of wickid| [Prov. xxjo.] men are abhominable, þat are offrid of felonie; he þat offriþ sacrifice [Eccli. xxxiuo.] of þe substaunce of þe pore, os he þat sleþ þe sone in þe siȝt of þe fadre. And wat þat is offrid in felony in þe sacrifice of God it softiþ not, but steriþ his wraþe. It semiþ wel þat þeis vniust beggars, and namly þe ministers of þe kirk, brekyn þe bidding of God; ffor he biddiþ þus, Vtterly a nedy man and beggar be not a [Deut. xuo.] mong ȝowe; þat is to sey, Þoliþ not in ȝour defaut ani fal in to so gret nede, þat he be nedid to beg. And bi þe same ne man schuld blamfuly bi idulnes, bi rechlesnes, noþer bi wast, noiþer bi foly, bring him silf to swilk nede. And if he dede, men schuld not ȝeue to him þat he askiþ, as is befor seid. And for Salamon seiþ, Þe [Prov. xxo.] slowman wold not in winter here for þe cold; þerfor he schal beg in þe somer, and þer schal not be ȝeuen to him. And if he beg wiþ out nede, he doþ vniustly; for to beg, is þe creater to schew be word or wark or tokun is defaut wanting, and nediþ to be releuid, and ask bi side þe titil of worldly dede, sum þing to be releuid by; of þis need þan if he noiþer want, ne haue nede to be releuid, he doþ vniustly þat brekiþ Goddis bidding, liȝeþ, and beriþ falswitnes; ffor he affermiþ þat ned is þer, wan it is not; and þus he is a þef, and fraudful reuar. Also it semiþ þat þei put wrong un to God, or to þe peple, or to boþe; ffor þus is seid in Goddis lawe, Þe wark|man is worþi of his meed, and his hyre. And eft, who þat warkiþ [Matt. xo.] ani þing to þe, pay him his hyre a none. But wan þeis ministeris [Tobit. iuo.] of þe wark han don þer office, if God or þe peple wil not pay hem þer hire, þan is God or þe peple vniust, if God schuld pay and doþ not, he doþ þan aȝen his oune law. If þe pepul schuld pay, and doþ not, þan þe peple brekiþ þe bidding of God. But if þeis men beggars are not sent of God, to do þis office, or doþ not þis
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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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