Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

The repressor of over much blaming of the clergy.

therof, if Crist were now in erthe in a greet prece of peple, and thou myȝtist come so nyȝ that thou schuldist touche with thin hond hise feet or his hond his breste or his cheke or hise clothis, and woldist therbi gendre to thee bi so myche the more affeccioun anentis him than if thou myȝtist not so touche him or his clothing, (euen riȝt as we han experience that oon persoon gendrith more loue to an other, if he biclippe him in armys, than he schulde, if he not come so nyȝ to him and not biclippid him,)—it muste nedis folewe, if thou ymagine Crist or an other Seint for to be bodili streiȝt thoruȝout the bodi of the ymage, that thou schalt gendre, gete, and haue bi so miche the more good affeccioun to God or to the Seint, that thou dost to him touching him in the ymage as bi ymaginacioun. And sithen what a man mai not haue and do at the next and immediatli, he wole be weel paied and weel plesid for to haue it mediatli, (that is to seie, forto haue it arombe and bi a meene,) it folewith that it is coueitable to a man into the gendring or the contynuyng of such seid affeccioun to God and to Seintis for to desire haue, and for to gete to him and haue vnto his visage or iȝen or mouth the touche of Cristis feet or of his mouth or of his hond or breste bi meene of the touche which the hond getith fro hem and vpon hem immediatli; (euen as thou woldist be weel plesid, if thi freend, whom thou louest and which loueth thee, wolde sende to the a cosse or an handling or a biclipping or eny other bodili touching bi a meene persoon receyuyng thilk cosse, handling, biclipping, or othere touching of him immediatli, and delyueryng to thee as fro him mediatli:) namelich sithen the nature of loue bitwixe persones [is] forto be a moving in to oonyng and ioynyng tho per|soones to gidere, in so miche that if tho persoones miȝten make euereither of hem forto entre into the
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The repressor of over much blaming of the clergy.
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Recock, Reginald, bp. of Chichester, 1395?-1460?
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London,: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts,
1860.
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Lollards
Great Britain -- Church history

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