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Select English works of John Wyclif; edited from original mss. by Thomas Arnold.

synne among men, neþeles al maner of men synnen herynne; and prelatis, þat dampnen men in maner of þer cursyng. And ofte tymes þei witen not how þei ben to God; and by reputa|cion þat shulde be take of Goddis lawe þes men done well as God biddiþ hem do. Lordis jugen ofte tymes þat oþer men done amys, whan þei displesen hem in þir wronge wille; as we dampnen Clement [This allusion fixes the date of the composition of these Sermons to a time between 1378 and 1394, in which latter year the anti-pope Cle|ment VII died.] wiþ his fautours, and þei dampnen us, and o king dampniþ his adversarie, and he dampniþ him aȝen, and comounes dampnen proude men and oþers to be ypocrites. And comounly foly jugement is þing þat men knowen not, for þei leden not þer witt after Goddis lawe, for þei presumen as þe fende to kunne þat þei knowen not.—¶ Þe fourþe and þe fifþe word biddiþ men forȝyve and ȝyve sum maner of goodis, and so shal God rewarde hem. And not al oonly God, but seintis in hevene, shal rewarde men, after þat þey have done here to hem. For þese fyve dedis [After dedis D inserts aren. A and C agree with B.] alargid to alle men mut have sum men seintis in hevene. And þese seintis shulen reward men here in abound|ance of foure þingis; first, þei shal rewarde men in a good mesure, for seintis in hevene done beter to men þan þei diden to hem here in þis lyf; and where men diden scarsely good to þir breþeren, seintis fillen trewe men wiþ all manere of goodis; and þis fillyng is not voide but sadly replenchid [voydid but sadly replenysched, D.] , and at þe laste it is heepid as myche as it wole take. And siche metyng of corn, of mele, or oþer þing, wolde be preisid among men fer þe largenesse of þe meter; and þis þing men have here in her bosum, but God filliþ þe substance. For certis in sich mesure as men mesuren to her breþeren shal it be mesurid to hem bi jugement of God. Ȝif þe mesure be good, þei shal have good aȝen, and ȝif þe mesure be unjust, þei shal have peyne aȝen. And, for defaute in al þis comiþ of ypocrisye of prelatis, þat shulden teche pleynly Goddis lawe and not þer erþly wynnynges, þerfore seiþ Crist in his parable, þat ȝif þe blynde lede þe blynde boþe fallen in þe dike. But for Crist shulde be oure maister, and
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Select English works of John Wyclif; edited from original mss. by Thomas Arnold.
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Wycliffe, John, d. 1384.
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Oxford,: Clarendon Press,
1869-71.

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