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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.

þe apostil Poul seiþ þus; If ani man haue not þe Spirit of Crist, he [Ro. viijo.] is not of him; þat is, as þe glose seiþ, he þat haþ not þe Spirit [Glose.] aftir witt or dedis, he is not of þe body of Crist. Also þus seiþ seint Jerom; Noght alle bischoppis in name ar bischoppis in dede; [Jerom.] þu tend… to Petir, but considir Judas; þu takst vp Steuen, lok ageyn to Nicol; þe kirkis dignite makiþ not only a cristun man. Corneli centurio, ȝet vncristund, is clensid wiþ þe Hooli Goost. Daniel, ȝet a barne, jugid þe prestis. It is not liȝt to stond in þe place of Petir and Poule, and hald þe place of hem þat regnun in heuen wiþ Crist. Sonnid salt is not worþ, but þat it be cast forþ, and soilid of suynne. Also Austeyn seiþ, Nout ilk þat seiþ pes to [Austeyn.] ȝou, is to be hard as colver or a doue. He þat haþ not in him þe resoun of gevernauns, ne haþ not wipid a wey his defautis, ne mendid þe crime of his synnes, is more to be seid a vnschamfast hound þan a bischop. Not alle prestis ar had for prelats, for þe name makiþ not þe bischop, but þe lif. And Gregor seiþ; Poul [Gregor.] seiþ, blam þu not an heldar man; but þis reule is þan to be kept in him, wan þe synne of þe heldar man drawiþ not be his ensaumple þe hertis of þe ȝungar in to deþ; but wan þe heldar gifiþ ensaumple to þe ȝong to deþ, þer is he to be stregun wiþ scharp blamyng, for it is writoun, Al ȝe be grynnies of þe ȝong. And eft, Waried þe barn of an vndrid ȝere. And þis is put after in decreis, Weþer þe priuilege of dignite is not to be tan a wey from [Decreis.] hem to wham Austeyn, Jerom, and Gregor tak a wey þe name of þe bischop, or heldarman, þat he may be correctid of wudlowtis. Also Austeyn seiþ, He þat desiriþ bischophed, he desiriþ a good [Austeyn.] werk; he wold expound what is bischophed, for is it þe nam of werk, and not of honor; it is Grek; and þer is seid a word, þat he þat is maad a prest, tak he ȝed to þe þingis þat he is maad prest to, doing þe cure of hem; scopos is locand vp on; þer for, if we wil, we mai calle bischoppis, locars up on, þat he þat lufith to be a prest not furþer to, vnderstond him not to be a bischop; þus seiþ
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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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