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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 secound is on þe gespel, vpon þe rewlis of prudence; þe þrid is worldly, up on þe rewl of mannis lawe; and þe fourt is fendly. Be þe first, gostly þings ai lastand are bout for temporal þings þat are falling and passing. Of secound is seid, þat Cristis dis|ciplis went in to þe cyte to by met. Of þe þrid is comyn among men. Of þe fourt is seid þat Achab was sold to do iuil in siȝt of þe Lord. þeis wel vnderstondun, it semeþ wel þat popis, cardi|nalis, and oþer prelats, prestis, and oþer religiouse, may medfully and graciously selle indulgencis and merits of seynts and preyours and gostli suffrages, as þei may graunt be cristun men swilk þings or benfets and deds of mercy and oþer goodis; and þus may oþer bye. And mani may not tak part of grace ne of blis but if þei bye it vn sum maner, and it be sold hem; it semiþ bi þis þat Crist bouȝt us aȝen, and for our good dedis behit vs heuenly kyndom. þus blessid martirs for gloriouse martirdom deseruid to haue per|petual crounis. þus þe apostil did alle þings for þe gospel þat he schuld be maad perseyuer þer of. Als þus seye we, o maruelous marchandies, þe maker of man kynd takyng a soulid body of þe virgyn, demd to be borne, and forþgoing man wiþ out seed, may gif vs his godhed, swilk feiþ is ai mad in hope trust and charite. And þus if þe pope, or ani oþer, ani tyme feiþfully and charitably graunt and hiȝt to ani man indulgens, or part of merit of seynts, part of preyours, abstinens, wakyng, obediens, or oþer deds, iustly, and on Goddis plesaunce, and graciousli, for her good deds, oþer þat þei be relesid of synnis, or of peynis, or þat þei be þe more sterid to þe feiþ, or to plese God, blessidli þei selle swilk þingis to hem. And aȝen worde swilke þenkand to do þe deds of God iustli, and graciously þe dedis of mercy, þat he be maad per|seyuar of swilk þings, boþ þei bien and sellen blessidli. But if þe pope, led bi coueytise, or oþer, as symonie, or wiþ þe spirit of pride, as if þei wiþ here biginning disposid alle þings, and graunt swilk þingis to ilke man, ȝha wiþ out merit, or wiþ out God ledar before,
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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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