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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.

was not hardi to accept þis foule hardy presumpcoun, but suppose þat Petre or aungel of heuun accept to lowse or to bynd, he may not do þis, but in as mykil as it soundiþ to þe hed of þe kirk abouyn. And as þis consonaunt is vnknowen to þe japer, so þis fendly marchaundy is vneuident to þe feiþful peple knowend þis; þus seiþ þe doctor. Also a doctor in þe lawe, Barthelmew in [Barth.] casis, seiþ þat dais or ȝeris of indulgens are not daies ne ȝeris of heuen ne of purgatory, but þei are daies of þis world. Also þe [Clemen|tins.] law seiþ, Pardoneris ow not to graunt indulgens of þer wil of dede, ne dispens vp on wowis, ne asoil of swering, mansleyng, or of oþer synnis þei þat schriuis to hem, ne forȝeue þingis iuil tan awey and vncerteyn to wōme to restore for a quantite of money ȝyuen to hem, ne forȝeue þe þridde or þe fourt part of penaunce en|ioinid, ne to draw sum tyme a soule fro purgatorie, as þei feynun falsly, ne graunt pleyn remissioun of synnis, ne asoile a pena et a culpa, for alle priuilegis up on þeis or ani of hem are aȝen callid in. þe Clementyns de pe. co. abus. h. Barth. in Casibus. If it be askid weþer þe pope selle indulgencs and merits of seynts, or þat men of þe kirke selle þer orisouns preyours or gostly suf|fragis; here I sey þus, It semiþ me spedy to aferm no þing folily. But it semiþ mekenes to seke how bying and sellyng synfully may falle in swelk þings, þat feiþful folk eschew þe warliar; and þan þe dede semiþ and witnessiþ herd and vnderstonden and oþer circum|stauncs. Ilk man deme þe sikirliar þing þat semit to him. To selle is þe hauer to ȝeue his þing for price tane, and bi his resonable nature to reseyue þing for price ȝeuun, and þus bying and sellyng dubli grauntid and dubli ȝeuing. þer to selle is seid as for to ȝeue to selling. Werfor wan I by meit for money, I selle þe money þat þe toþer man bieþ, as I bye þing þat þe toþer selliþ. I bye þe met; in þis þat I reseyue for price ȝeuun. And I selle þe money in þis þat I giue it for price. And it semiþ þat bying and selling of man is many fold; þe first heuinly; vpon þe rewlis of wis|dam;
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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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