Wycliffe (Early) [1850], THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, WITH THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS, IN THE EARLIEST ENGLISH VERSIONS MADE FROM THE LATIN VULGATE BY JOHN WYCLIFFE AND HIS FOLLOWERS: Edited by THE REV. JOSIAH FORSHALL, F.R.S. etc. Late Fellow of Exeter College, and SIR FREDERIC MADDEN, K.H. F.R.S. etc. Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD) [word count] [B02010].
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Britheren,
1 sothli the will of myn herte
and my biseching is maad to God for
-- --
hem in to heelthe.
2 Forsothe I bere witnessinge
to hem, for thei han loue of
God, but not vp kunnynge.
3 Sothli thei
vnknowynge Goddis ri&yogh;twysnesse, and
sekinge for to make stedefast her owne,
ben not suget to the ri&yogh;twysnesse of God.
Forsothe the ende of the lawe Crist,
4 to
ri&yogh;twysnesse to ech man bileuynge.
5 Sothli
Moyses wrot, For the man that schal do
ri&yogh;twysnesse that is of the lawe, schal
lyue in it.
6 Forsoth the ri&yogh;twysnesse that
is of byleue, seith thus, Seie thou not in
thin herte, Who schal sty&yogh;e into heuene?
that is to seie, for to lede doun Crist;
or who schal go doun in to depnesse,
7
`or helle? that is, for to a&yogh;en clepe Crist
fro the deede spiritis.
8 But what seith
the scripture? The word is ny&yogh; in thi
mouth, and in thin herte; this is the
word of bileue, `the which we prechen.
That if thou knowleche in thi mouth the
9
Lord Jhesu Crist, and byleuest in thin
herte, that God reiside him fro deede spiritis,
thou schalt be saaf.
10 Forsoth by
herte me bileueth to ri&yogh;twysnesse, by
mouth sothli knowleching is maad to
helthe.
11 Sothli the scripture seith, Ech that
bileueth into him, schal not be confoundid.
Sothli ther is no distynccioun of Jew and
12
Greek; for why the same Lord of alle,
ryche into alle, that inclepen him.
13 Forsoth
ech man who euere schal inclepe
the name of the Lord, schal be saaf.
14 How
therfore schulen thei inclepyn hym, into
whom thei han not bileued? or how
schulen thei bileue to hym, whom thei
herden not? How forsoth schulen thei
heere,
15 with outen the prechinge? or
how schulen thei preche, no but if thei
be sent? As it is writun, How faire the
feet of `men euangelisinge pees, of prechinge
-- --
goode thingis.
16 But not alle men
obeischen to the gospel. Forsoth Ysaie
seith, Lord, who bileuyde to oure heeringe?
Therfore feith of heeringe,
17 heering
forsoth by the word of Crist.
18 But
I seye, Wher thei herden not? And
sothli the word of hem wente out into
al erthe, and into the endis of the roundnesse
of the erthe `her wordis.
19 But I
seie, Wher Israel knew not? First Moyses
seith, I schal lede &yogh;ou to enuye, `into
not a folk; into an vnwys folk, I schal
sende &yogh;ou in to wraththe.
20 Forsoth Ysaie
dar, and seith, I am foundyn of men not
sekinge me; openly I apperide to hem,
that axiden not me.
21 Forsothe to Yrael
he seith, Al day I strei&yogh;te out my hondis
to a peple not bileuynge to me, but a&yogh;en
seyinge.
Wycliffe (Early) [1850], THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, WITH THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS, IN THE EARLIEST ENGLISH VERSIONS MADE FROM THE LATIN VULGATE BY JOHN WYCLIFFE AND HIS FOLLOWERS: Edited by THE REV. JOSIAH FORSHALL, F.R.S. etc. Late Fellow of Exeter College, and SIR FREDERIC MADDEN, K.H. F.R.S. etc. Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD) [word count] [B02010].
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