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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CAP. IV.
1 Forsoth the spirit seith opynli, for in
the laste tymes summe schulen departe
fro the feith, &yogh;yuynge tent to spiritis of
errour,
2 and to techingis of deuels; in
ypocrisye spekinge lesyng, and hauynge
her conscience brent,
3 forbedynge for to
wedde, for to absteyne fro metis, the
whiche God made `of no&yogh;t for to take
with doynge of thankingis, to feithful
men, and hem that han knowen the
treuthe.
4 For ech creature of God is
good, and no thing is to be cast awey, the
which is takun with doynge of thankingis;
forsoth it is halwid by `the word of God,
5
and `by preier.
6 Thou puttinge forth these
thingis to britheren, schalt be a good mynistre
of Crist Jhesu; thou norischid with
wordis of feith and of good doctryne,
that thou hast gete `in suynge.
7 Forsothe
schonye thou vncouenable fablis and veyn;
sothli haunte thi silf to pite.
8 Forwhi
bodili `excercitacioun, or traueling, or abstinence,
to litil thing is profytable; forsoth
pite is profytable to alle thingis,
hauynge biheeste of lyf that now is, and
to comynge.
9 A trewe word, and worthi
al accepcioun.
10 Sothli in this thing we
traueilen, and ben cursid, for we hopen in
quyk God, that is sauyour of alle men,
moost of feithful men.
11 Comaunde thou
this thing, and teche.
12 No man dispise thi
&yogh;ongthe, but be thou ensaumple of feithful
men in word, in lyuynge, in charite,
in feith, in chastite.
13 The while I come,
taak tent to redinge, to exortacioun, `or
monestyng, and teching.
14 Nyle thou dispise,
-- --
`or litil charge, the grace `of God
that is in thee, that is &yogh;ouun to thee by
prophecie, with puttynge to of hondis
of prestis, `or presthod.
15 Thenk thou
thes thingis, in these be thou, that thi
profytyng be schewid, `or knowun, to alle
men.
16 Tak tent to thi silf and doctryn;
be bisy in hem. Sothli thou doynge
thes thingis, schalt make `thi silf saf, and
hem that heeren thee.
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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