The Answere.
This fault was obiected vnto him in his life time, whervnto heshapeth this modest& most Christiā answere.q 1.1 God is my witnesse, that I principally intende
An apologie for Iohn Wickliffe shewing his conformitie with the now Church of England; with answere to such slaunderous obiections, as haue beene lately vrged against him by Father Parsons, the apologists, and others. Collected chiefly out of diuerse works of his in written hand, by Gods especiall providence remaining in the publike library at Oxford, of the honorable foundation of Sr. Thomas Bodley Knight: by Thomas James keeper of the same.
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- An apologie for Iohn Wickliffe shewing his conformitie with the now Church of England; with answere to such slaunderous obiections, as haue beene lately vrged against him by Father Parsons, the apologists, and others. Collected chiefly out of diuerse works of his in written hand, by Gods especiall providence remaining in the publike library at Oxford, of the honorable foundation of Sr. Thomas Bodley Knight: by Thomas James keeper of the same.
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- James, Thomas, 1573?-1629.
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- 1608.
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- Wycliffe, John, d. 1384 -- Early works to 1800.
- Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610 -- Controversial literature.
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"An apologie for Iohn Wickliffe shewing his conformitie with the now Church of England; with answere to such slaunderous obiections, as haue beene lately vrged against him by Father Parsons, the apologists, and others. Collected chiefly out of diuerse works of his in written hand, by Gods especiall providence remaining in the publike library at Oxford, of the honorable foundation of Sr. Thomas Bodley Knight: by Thomas James keeper of the same." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A04328.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 11, 2025.
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his glory, and the weale of the Church, by seeking to honor the Scripture, and obserue Christs Law: & if it hath, or shall so happen at any time, that with this good intent of mine, there creepe in, any sinister intent of vaine glorie, covetousnes of the world, or desire of revenge, I am sorry for it, & will hereafter by Gods grace amende that fault. What could be spoken more ingenuouslie, soberly or Christianly? But were it true, that they saie, yet were it not as true, that Clodius accusat machos, Catilina Ce∣thegum? they werer 1.2 guilty of the same, or worse crimes, for did he nots 1.3 note the Diuines of his time, for giving themselues to much tot 1.4 railing and scolding, more me∣vetricum ••orsethen Cot-queanes, &u 1.5 to such brawlings of words as doe ingēder nothing but strife, not tending to edification, or if it x 1.6 were it was but to edifie men to Hell?
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q 1.1
Testis sit mi∣hi Deus ego principaliter. intendo ho∣norem Dei & vtilitatem Ecclesiae, ex veneratione Scripturae & ex obseruantia Legis Christi; quod si surrepserit cum ista intentione sinistra intentiovan••e gloriae, questus se∣culi, et zeli vindict••e, ego de h••c d••leo & per dei gratiā praecauebo. De Ver. Scr. p. 145.
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r 1.2
Proprium est haereticis alios no••are huius criminis cum deficiant argumentis lb. pag. 188.
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s 1.3
Plus attendit hodiernus dis∣pu••ants vt ad∣quisito ••ubtili∣tatis nomine videatur con∣cludi respon∣denti quam vt ad Dei gloriā et v••ilitatē Ecclesiae Dei gloria de∣claretur non sic ••ancti Do∣ctores De Ver Scrip pag. 15.
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Ib. pag. 188
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u 1.5
Verbalis cōtentio est in doctrina Scripturae invtilis In Expos. Decal pag. 17.
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Contentiones verbo••um non ae dificant nisi in Gehennam Ib. pag. 135.