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

gostly helpe bi fals letteris of fraternyte & many oþere nouel|ries brouȝt vp bi ypocrisie & coueitise. & as ion þe euaungelist [2 John 10.] comaundiþ, cristene men schulden not resceyue hem in-to here houses ne seie to hem, heil. & poul biddiþ þat men schulden [2 Thess. iii. 14.] not comune wiþ hem, þat þei ben confoundid & schamed of here false heresie & turne to cristis clene religion wiþ-outen errour of synful mennus tradicions. God almyȝtty strengþe his litil flok [folk X.] aȝenst þes foure whelis of sathanas chaar, aȝenst [page 213] anticristis clerkis & helperis, & make hem stronge in riȝtful feiþ, hope & charite, to seke trewely þe worschipe of ihū crist & sauynge of mennus soulis; to dispise anticristis bost & feyned power; & wilfully & ioiefully suffre peyne & reproue [reprof AA.] in þe world for þe name [þanne AA.] of ihū & his gospel, to ȝeue sade ensaumple to oþere for to folowe & conquere þe heiȝe blisse of heuene bi glorious martirdom as oþere seyntis diden bifore. Ihū for þin endeles myȝt, endeles wisdom, endeles goodnesse & charite, graunte to vs synful wrecchis þis bone. Amen.