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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.

punisch him, and not to bring forþ frut; and þus he seiþ he wille curse to her blessing, wan þei wil not kepe his bidding; for wan þei prey for plentey, and pees, and swilk oþer þings, and delitun in þeis þings, and ȝekun þer synnis þar by, he wil send hem skarnes and noiȝes, and þole hem to haue debate, and punische hem in mani wyes, and ay þe moo lusts þat þei haue here, ay þe more schal ben þer peyn. And þus he cursiþ to þer blessing. And so þis þat mani callun blessing is cursing. And aȝen ward; þus we prayen iuil and cursing to our neybor iustli, wan we desire þat discese and oþer enuyes be to hem to lette hem of iuil and to mak hem to drede synne and to do bettar. And þus we blame childre and misdoars. And þus Iob cursid his day. And Jeremy þat man þat [Iob 3o.] callid his fadre þat a son was born to þim, and as bi ioy gladid him, [Jer. 20o.] for þey desirid þat þeis schuld lette men fro doing of iuil and be in a maner to stere men to be heuy of þer mysse and to desire to be heyne; for þus were good to mani a man, þat þings were in desesse to him, þat now are in mikil leking. But ȝet in þis maner of curse þat men curse man iustli for his misdede, was Crist not cursid, for he seruid not to be cursid, nor God bad not men curse him, ne þei dede not þis iustly to him. But in þe þrid maner a þing is seid [3o.] cursid wan men cursun man þow þei do it vniustly, or bannun him, or puttun him out of comyn, or haldun him cursid, or denounce, or schew him cursid. And þus comyn speche calliþ men cursid. And bi lawis of þe kirk men are þus cursid, and bidun to be holdun cursid, wan þei are wel good, and þe more blessid of God. And þus Crist was cursid of men, and olden cursid, and put out of comyn of men, and put to deþ as cursid man. And þus seiþ Poule, [Gal. 3o.] He was mad for vs þat cursid þing, þat we schuld be mad blessid in him. And þe prophet Ysaye, þat we arettid him as smitun of [Ysa. 53o.] God and lafte, and þus he seiþ bi þe prophet þat alle men cursun to him. But for þis is he mikil þe bettar and not þe wars. And we schuld luf him þe bettar and desire þus to be cursid wiþ þim,
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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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