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

For þis name is newe foundun, & it bitokeniþ wundirful; for summe þenken it greet wundir þat worldly glory & hoolynesse shulden be knyttid in o persone; siþ crist forsok it in word & dede, & bi his lore his apostlis, lord, why shulden not prelatis do nou so? & by þis cause haþ þe fend brouȝt yn þat religioun of þes newe ordris shal be shewid in sensible signes, as habitis, & bikenes, & hye housis, & herfore haþ þe fend brouȝt in þat cumpany of many lumpis shal be ioyned to o persone for worldly worchip of þer staat. þus þer ben many cardenals & many men knyttid to hem; myche meyne to a bischop, & manye persones in an ordre, & al is charge to comyn men, & strengþe to þe fendis part. crist ordeynede þat his apostlis fro tyme þat he steyede to heuene shulden be scaterid in many cuntreys & conquere wickid men to crist. wel y rede þat seynt petre dwelte in a corieris hous, but [Acts x. [6.]] y rede not of cardenal ne page þat he hadde wiþ hym; & ȝit þis apostle cam to cornely & conuertide hym wiþ oþere. & þus may cristenmen lerne boþe of crist & his apostlis þat religioun of crist is not in siche worldly signes. & so men moten oþer denye bileue, or seye þat cristis religioun stondiþ not in siche signes as nou þe chirche is chargid wiþ. soþ it is [page 30] þat seculer prinsis & worldly lordis moten haue siche worldly signes, for þey shulden teche to drede god by austernete & worldly drede. but it is aȝenus cristis wille þat prestis meddle þes two to-gidere, for þey shulden teche bi mekenesse & paciense, as crist dide. & herfore biddiþ god in his lawe þat his men shulden not be cloþid in wollun [[Deut. xxii. 11.]] & lynnun partid to-gidere, to teche þis dyuersite in figure. crist was boþe kyng & prest, as he is boþe god & man, & þus sum þing falliþ to hym þat no cristenman may come to; but in siche poyntis shulden men lerne to sue bi vertues crist afer, & go not bifore crist, as dide presumpcion of petre; & þerfore crist clepide hym sathanas & bad petre go aftir hym. crist as a goode maystir hadde twelue apostlis to teche hem; anticrist ordeyneþ many twelue to lyue worldly & charge þe chirche. crist koude ensaumple kynghod &
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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.,
1880.

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