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The repressor of over much blaming of the clergy.

schalt louce vpon erthe schal be lousid in heuene. And thouȝ summe men vndirstonden in this processe bi this stoon the persoon of Crist and not the persoon of [of is interlineated in a later hand.] Petir, ["Super hanc, inquit, petram quam confessus es, ædificabo eccle|siam meam." S. August. in Joh. Tract. 124. "Super hanc petram, id est, super me ædificabo ecclesiam meam." S. Anselm. in loco.] whanne it is seid thus: And y seie to thee, thou art Petir, and vpon this stoon y schal bilde my chirche, and the gatis of helle, et cætera; and summe othere vndirstonden bi this stoon the feith which Peter thanne knoulechid to Crist, ["…." S. Chrysost. in loco. For more information re|specting the patristic interpretations of this text, see Barrow, On the Pope's Suprem., pp. 59, 60, Lond. 1687, from whom these passages are taken.] certis it is miche [miche is interlineated in a later hand.] more likeli that bi the stoon the persoon of Peter schulde be vndirstonde, rather than the persoon of Crist or eny other thing than the persoon of Peter. Forwhi in the clausul going next bifore the hool clausul, in which it is spokun of the stoon, Crist spak to Petir and of Petir, seiyng thus, And y seie to thee, for thou art Petir; also in the tweyne clausulis, next folewing the hool clausul conteyning the speche of the stoon, Crist spake to Peter and of Petir, seiyng thus, And to thee y schal ȝeue the keies of the king|dom of heuene; and eftsoone next thus, And what euer thing thou schalt binde, et cætera. Wherfore it is at moost [the moost, MS. (first hand).] likeli to be trewe, that the myddil clausul, closid bitwixe these now rehercid clausulis, was seid to Petir and of Petris persoon; ȝhe, and ȝit miche the more herfore, for ellis this clausul, And y seie to thee, for thou art Peter, hadde be seid in waast and in veyn to Petir and of Petris persoon, and hadde be seid vnpertynently and vnhangingli fro the materis of 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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