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

crist wente out of þe temple [page 94b] & sat in þe mount aȝen it, hise disciplis for wondryng þer-of & to see his wit þer-of askeden [Matt. xxiv. [2.]] wheþer he sau alle þise wondirful byldyngis. & crist an|suerede to hise apostlis, & tolde hem hou hym likede herof: "Soþeliche i seye to ȝou, tyme shal come soone heraftir þat noon stoon shal be left here on an-oþer, þat it ne shal be destryed;" and so it fel soone aftir, when ierusalem was destryed. Þre þyngis shulden moue men to be glad of sich byldyng: On, for it turneþ a-wey fro þe state of innocence; & herfore crist & baptist & oþere seyntis makeden noon siche. Þe secunde cause þat shulde moue to be glad of siche byld|yng is, þat god seyþ bi poul: "we hauen not here a [Heb. xiii. [14.]] duellynge citee, but we seken heuen to come." & non drede siche housyng makiþ many to loue þis world, & to duelle in lustis þer-of, & leue loue of þe oþere worlde. Þe þridde cause þat men shulden haue to loke on siche byldyng is þat þei shulden þenke on þe pore peple; hou ofte þat þei ben spoylid bi suttil fraudis of þe fend bifore þat siche housis weren bildid, þat ben but an heep of wrongis. Þise þre causis shulden not ȝiue matere of ioye to men of resoun, but raþere matere of sorowe to telle hasty destriyng of hem. men may see ouer wheþer þise patrouns vseden þise housis in sich mesure, & leften in heere rewlis aftir þat heere disciplis shulden bilde þus; & siþ þe contrarie is soþ, to whiche þise ordris ben streytliche sworen, it semeþ þat þe fend shapiþ a disport to hise clerkis to serue hym inne. & so ȝif men chargen mesure, þise placis & bildyng of hem passen mesure þat god haþ tauȝt, & so þei ben agen goddis power. & ȝif we taken heede to þe noumbre of siche castel of þe fend, þey ben aȝen wisdom of crist, siþ he approuede not siche housis. for siþ in tyme of more wisdom þer weren chirchis & housis ynowe, what wisdom [page 95] is it to multiplie þise, & destrye hoolyere old placis? certis iniuries ben don to parisshe chirchis bi siche newe chirchis of ordris; & ȝif þus wrongis of a place shulden lette men to herye god þere, siche placis of newe ordris shulden be fled as fendis holetis. And ȝif we
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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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