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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.

miȝt not, semiþ þus; for he seiþ in the gospel, þe Sone mai not of [Jo. uo.] himsilf ani þing, nor nouȝt, but as he seþ þe Fadir doing; þat if he schuld do ani þing þat God schuld not bi him, schuld do vniustly. For þus he seiþ: If I bere witnes of misilf, mi wittnes is not trewe, it is Fadir þat beriþ wittnes of me; and as þe Fadir beriþ witnes of him, and biddiþ him bere witnes and speke, so he beriþ witnes and spekiþ. War for he seiþ; þe words þat I speke, I speke not of misilf, but þe Fadir dwelling in me he doþ þe dedis, and as he gaf me bidding so I spek. And so is ilk man holdun to spek, and do, and witnes, as þe Fadir giffiþ bidding to hem. And þat no creater mai do iustli ani þing, not but if Crist do it bi him, semiþ þus. Ilk power in heuen and in ȝerþe is ȝeuen to Crist. Also þe Fadir haþ ȝeuen al dome to þe Sone, and al wysdam is of þe Lord God. þerfor wiþ out Crist is no iust power, dome, ne wisdam; he haþ þe key of Dauid; he closiþ, and þan no man [Apoc. iij.] opunniþ; he opunniþ and þan no man closiþ. If he dyng down, þan no man biggiþ vppe. If he close, þan is þer no man þat may opun, ne iustli aȝenstond him, nor no man mai sey þis schal be don, but if he bidde. And he giffiþ power, and wisdam, and seiþ: Wiþ outen me ȝee mai no þing do. And for þis seiþ Poule: We [Joh. xuo.] may not of our self þenk ani þing as of ourself, but our sufficiens [2 Cor. iijo.] is in God; and no werkis in vs and no þing mai we aȝen þe trowþ, [2 Cor. xiijo.] but for þe trowþ. And for þis seiþ þe prophet: Lord, þu hast wrout al our warkis in vs. And mani swilk witnes. And so, sin [Is. xxujo.] no creater mai do iustli ani þing wiþ outun Crist, þan þe kirk may not, noþer general kirk, ne particuler; þe kirk in heuen, ne þe kirk sleping in purgatory, ne þe kirk fiȝting in þis world, aggregat, or gedred to gidre in on of Crist, and of al chosun to be blessid wiþ him wiþ outen ende, lepun vp to gidir in to oo spirit and con|corporel and conperseyuers and felows of þe heiȝest of Crist, and of his godly kynd. As Petre seiþ in his epistil, and Poul of Colo|censes: Weþer it be þe kirk particuler, as were two or þre are
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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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