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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.

And doing þeis þings, þu schalt mak þi seluen sane, and hem þat herun þe. And prestis þat prestun wel be þei hade worþi dowble [1 Tim. vo.] honor, and most þei þat trauelun in word and in dede, teching. þus it semiþ þat þei are bound to hold þis forme of liue in hemsilue, and ai to be redy to ken oþer and to minister to hem. And were euer bi oportunite, or conpetent acordauns, to be redi to fil it in dede, wiþ out dispensacoun, and wiþ out excusacoun, but if our Lord Ihu Crist despens wiþ hem, and excuse hem, or for bed hem. For no man sett a noþer ground þan it þat is sett, þat is Crist Ihu, [1 Cor. xio.] þat haþ þe key of Dauiþ, and he closiþ, and þan no man opuniþ, he [Apoc. iijo.] opuniþ, and þan no man sperriþ, neþer is no man worþi to opun þe lasing of his scho; þat is þus to vnderstond: as no man is worþi to opun þe priueite of his incarnacoun, ne to fynd þe resoun of al his warkis, so is no man worþi to mak a letter or title of his to go by vnfillid, ne to put more þer to, ne to draw þer fro, ne to chaunge it, noiþer to lowse þat he byndiþ, ne to bynd þat he lowsiþ, befor þat he ȝeuiþ þe key, and kenniþ to opun and to steyke; þerfor tent þei so, and here þei al þing þat niȝeþ to presthed, and alle þat admitten oþer þerto, and þat enforcyn to excuse hem fro dede of preching, and to excuse hem in pride of lif, worldly coueiteis, coueiteis of een, and coueiteis of flesche, tent þei to þeis þingis be for seid. And to þoo þat God seiþ bi þe profet, son of [Eze. xlivo.] man, putt to hert, and see wiþ þin een, and here wiþ þin heris, alle þings þat I spek to þe, of al cerimoynis of þe house of þe Lord, and of lawis þer of, and þu schalt sett þin hert in þe weyes of þe temple, bi al þe issewis of þe sanctuari; and þu schalt sey to þe house of Israel stering me to wraþ, þeis þings seiþ þe Lord God; sufficiþ to ȝow al ȝor felonies hous of Israel; for þat he bring in alien sonis vncircumsicid in hert, and vncircumsicid in flesch, þat þei be in my sanctuari, and fyle myn house, and ȝe offer my lofis, mi gres, and my blod; my couanant ȝe dissoluen in al ȝor felonyes, and han not kepid þe biddings of mi sanctuari, and han put kepars
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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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