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The English works of Wyclif hitherto unprinted.Edited by F. D. Matthew.

men on þe crois & made hem fre; but aȝenst þis heresie poul writiþ þus in [& X.] goddis lawe: "what kynne seruauntis ben vnder [1 Tim. vi. [1.]] ȝook of seruage deme þei here lordis worþi alle manere honour or worschipe, þat þe name & techynge of þe lord be not blasphemyd," þat is, holden wrongful & dispised; & þis word is vndirstonden of heþene lordis. "but þo seruauntis þat han trewe or cristene lordis, dispise þei not to serue hem for þat þei ben breþeren boþe in kynde & in feiþ, but more serue þei for þe lordis ben cristene & louyd, þe whiche ben partyneris of good dede. teche þou þes þingis," seiþ poul to bischop thymothe, "boþe to men þat ben vnlerned, And stire men þat ben lerned & necligent in doynge. ȝif ony man techiþ oþer wise, & accordiþ not to þe hoole wordis of oure lord ihū crist & to þat lore þat is after pitee, he is proude, no þing kunnynge, but weilynge or languyschynge aboute questiouns & fiȝttynge of wordis, of whiche ben gendred enuyes [enemyes X.] st[r]yues & blasphemes, þat ben dispisyngis of god, euyl suspescions & fiȝttyngis to-gedre of men þat ben corupt in herte or soule, þat ben priued fro treuþe." ¶ Also poul [Titus ii. [8. 10.]] techiþ þat generaly cristene men & wymmen schullen be so holy of lif, þat men out of bileue be aschamed & haue noon euyl to seie of cristene men, & chargiþ seruauntis to be suget, or vnderlout, [under lout X.] to here lordis, & plesynge in alle þingis, & not aȝen seiynge, not doynge fraude, but in alle þingis schewynge good feiþ or fidelite or treuþe, to worschipe, or to make fair in alle þingis þe techynge of god oure saueour. And þerfore techiþ petir þat cristene men schullen haue so [1 Peter iii. [16.]] good conscience & so good lif þat enemys of oure feiþ þat bakbiten or myspeken of vs ben confounded, & also þei þat falsly chalengen oure goode lif in crist be stoppid; & petir spekiþ more pleynly of þis matir, & comaundiþ cristene men [1 Peter ii. [12.]] to haue goode lyuynge amonge heþene men, þat in þat þing þat þei myspeken of vs, as of mysdoeris, þat þei beholden & see vs of oure goode werkis, & glorifie god in þe tyme of
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The English works of Wyclif hitherto unprinted.Edited by F. D. Matthew.
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Wycliffe, John, d. 1384.
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London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by Trübner & co.,
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