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A15298	Tvvo short treatises, against the orders of the begging friars, compiled by that famous doctour of the Church, and preacher of Gods word John Wickliffe, sometime fellow of Merton, and master of Ballioll Coll. in Oxford, and afterwards parson of Lutterworth in Lecestershire. Faithfully printed according to two ancient manuscript copies, extant, the one in Benet Colledge in Cambridge, the other remaining in the publike librarie at Oxford	Wycliffe, John, d. 1384.; James, Thomas, 1573?-1629.	1608 (1608)	STC 25589; ESTC S121923	41,431	74

sharplie pursueden Priests that stoden by charitie and profite of the Realme And so they weren then aboue the King Lords and trew Priests and robbeden the Kings liege men by false leasings of manie thowsand pounds that thowgh the King showld now be taken and our land now conquered or destroied the King might not raise so much to help himselfe his land And certes there was treason to God and the King and false deceit of al men both of cattaile and of foule and letting and destroying of peace and of charitie Cap. 25 Iudas children seling Christ al for money FRiars also beene Scariots children betraying true men of the Gospel and so Christ for monie for monie they senden souls to Sathanas by example of there evil liuing by counsel to warres nourishing and comforting men in sin for lusts of there flesh For in pleasing of Bishops and other men they preachen against pouertie of Christ and sain that Preachers of the Gospel and Christs life beene Hereticks worthie to be brend And so for gifts of Bishops and other men and worldly fauour they sellen truth of the Gospell so Christ as Iudas did For S. Bede S. Ambrose saien sith Christ is truth he that for monie saies falsenes and leaues the sooth does such sinne as Iudas did and so they counsailen to wars for they winnen much thereby and for defaut of charitie they senden soules to Hel when men by there counsaile taken false warres enden in them weening that they done wel and therefore dien withouten sorrow of them And for to harte men in this cursed warring they gone with them into warre and beene there Confessours and sometime slaien men in there owne person and thus they been Antichrists Martyrs and fleene to Hel to draw other menthither after them Cap. 26. They sclaunder ●…rue Priests flatter wicked men ALso Friars distroien this worlde most of al cursed men for they backbitē good Clarks saien that they distourblen the worlde and flateren euill Clarks in there sin so they praisen Lords that beene tyrants extortioners and evil liuers and Ladies also And they despisen Lords and Ladies that bee giuen to leaue pride and vanitie of the world and saien it was not merrie sithen Lords and Ladies tooken reward to the Gospel leften there ancestors māners that weren worshipful to the world And so of rich men and other they praisen them that bring them much monie with wrong and many deceits saien that they been holie but other men that giuen not Friars much more then enough they lacken at the full though they done there almes much better to there poore neighbours And sith God saies that euill teachers beene cause of destruction of the people and Grosted declares it well and Friars beene principal euil teachers they beene principal cause of destroying of this world For they beene Confessours Preachers and Rulers commonlie of al men and they teachen thē not there foule sinnes and perils of them but suffren them in there sinnes for winning of stinking mucke and lusts of there own bellie that is foule wormes meat and a sacke of dirt Cap. 27. Friars most impatiēt of al men liuing in bearing reprooff ALso Friars beene most rebel against the teaching of Christs Gospel and most out of patience and pittie For they beene most vnpatient against reproving of sinne and destroying thereof For a Lorde wil meekelier suffer sharpe despising of his little sinne then they wil suffer meeke and soft reprouing of there great heresies For they beene wood that mens almes should be rightly departed among poore needie men feeble crooked and blind for then they saien they been vndone but they been of vaine religiō as S. Iame saies For this is a cleane religion withouten spot anentis God the Father to visite the fatherles modirles children widdowes in there tribulation and to keepe aman vnfouled fro this world that is fro pride covetise vanities But Friars done al the contrarie for they visiten rich men and by hipocrisie getten falslie there almes and withdrawen it fro poore mē but they visiten rich widdowes for there mucke and maken them to be buried at the Friars but poore men comen in not there And wilful povertie they forsaken and most covetous of al men and boasten more of there holines and been most dislanie of there vaine speech and worldlie as true men tellen Friars saien apertlie if the King and Lords and other men stonden thus against there false begging and wil not suffer Friars to rob there Tenāts but giue there Almes to there poore neighbours Friars wil go out of the Land come againe with bright heads And looke whether this bee treason or none Cap. 28. The Holy scripture accused by these vnholy men of falshood ALso Friars teachen and maintainen that Holie writ is false and so they putten falsenes vpon our Lord Jesu Christ and on the Holie Ghost and on all the Blessed Trinitie For sith God Almightie taught confermes and maintaines Holie writ if this writing be false then God is false and maintainour of errour and falsenes but certes then he is no God yet knowen we neuer that anie sect would saie that lawes of there God were false and there with beleeue on the same God but this despite done these blasphemers to the Holie Trinitie Alas who maie suffer this blasphemie that Christ in whom is al treasour of wit wisdom truth couthe not or would not saie true words and sentence but sinful fools haue true māner of speaking contrarie to the speech of our Lord Jesu Christ. For if this be sinneful fooles yea in case Devils of Hel been wiser truer then is Jesu Christ. And whē this cursed ground is sought it stands in this error For I am Maister of vanitie and of Heresie misvnderstond the words of God therefore they beene false But these Hereticks shouldē know that it sues of there cursed ground that God is the falsest thing in earth or heauen or in Hell Why for men falslie vnderstonden most falsenes of him And thus might ech Panime or Sarracene make our God false as him liked But why saien they that Holie writ is false for they been wont so much to leasings and falsenes that they taken falsenes for truth As men saien a man maie so long be nourished little little by venime that he weanes it be wholsome meet good Also Holie writ damnes there foule Hipocrisie begging couetise and other sinnes therfore they saien that it is false to colour by there falsenes Also Holie writ praises much Christs religion and tels how newe Sects ful of Hipocrisie covetise shullen come deceaue Christian men and bids them know them by there couetise and Hipocrisie And therfore they saien as Sathanas Clerks that Holy writ is false Cap. 29. How strongly wedded to there rotten habit FRiars also beene stronglier wedded with there rotten habit against the

predecessours han done so many times by lawful cause as pertaining to there regalie and of common Law by counsaile of Peeres of the Realme it sueth that not only our king now present hath erred but also his predecessours generally al his Counsellers as Lords and Prelats and al men of the Parliament counsailing therto Also if this bee errour touching the health of mans soule than it is against holy writ and than if a man sustaine or maintaine this errour he is an heretick but ful manie Kings Lords and Prelats and other wise mē han sustained this and maintained and yet done as per taining to the Kings Regalie and of common law thā bene these Friers al Kings Lords and Prelats al wise men of our Realme bene hereticks Also sith this is an old custome the which our King Lords and Prelats bene sworn to sustaine and maintaine if this be errour as Friers sayen openly it sueth by Friers that al these bene forsworne hereticks Also if this bee errour as Friers faynē that thowgh an Abbot and al his Couent ben open traytours conspiring into death of the King and Queene and of other Lords and enforce them to destroy al the Realme the King may not take fro them an half-peny ne farthing worth sith al these bene temporal goods Also thowgh other Clarks senden vnto our enimies al the rents that they han in our Land what euer they may robbe or steal of the Kings Liege men yet may not our King punish by o farthinge ne farthing worth Also by this ground of Friers thowgh Monks or Friers or other Clarks what euer they bene slayne Lords tenants the Kings Liege men defoulē Lords wyues yea the Queene that God forbede or the Empiresse yet the King maie not punish them by o farthing Also it sueth plainly that men cleped mē of holy Church may dwel in this land at ther liking doe what kinne sinne what kinne treason liketh them and natheles the King may not punish ne in temporal goods ne in their body sith if he may not punish them in the lesse he maie not●…in the more and also they maken one of them selfe King and so no secular Lord maie let him to conquer al Secular Lordship in this earth and so they maie slea al Lord Ladies there blowd and affinitie with anie paine in this life or in bodie or in cattel Yee Lords seeth and vnderstondeth with what punishing they deserue to be chastised that thus vnwarly wrongfully han damned you for hereticks for as much as you don execution rightwilnesses by Gods law and mans and namelie of the Kings regalie For the chief Lordshippe in this lond of al Temporalties both of secular men Religious pertaine to the King of his general gouerning for els hee were not King of al England but of a littel part therof Therfore the men that bysien them to take awaie this Lordship fro the King as don Friers there fautours in this point bene sharper enemies and traitours than French men and al other nations Also it pertaineth to the King the while a Bishop or ani Abbots see is void to haue in his hand al Temporalties and at his owne wil to yeue them to Prelats therfore the King maie take a waie these Temporalties from Prelats whan law ful cause excitith Also the king owght graunt no man freedome to doo sinne or trespasse but to take awaie the fredome but men of the Church had free licence to trespasse if the king might not bereue ther Temporalties when they sinneden greevously And so Saint Paul teacheth that eche man be subiect to their Potestates for there is noe power but of God and tho things that bene of God bene ordained so they that withstondeth power withstondeth Gods ordinance For whie Princes bene not a dredd of good works but of euil But wilt thow not dread a power d●…e good thow shalt haue preysing therof that is of him that is ordained in the high estate for he is Gods minister or seruant to the in good but if thou haue done euil than dread for he beareth the sword not without cause for he is Gods seruant vengere in wrath to him that doth euil and therefore by need or of need be yee subiect or vnderlout not onlie for wrath but also of cōscience Al this saith St. Paul of which auctoritie it is to knowē to al men that Clarks owen to be subiect of nede to the kings power For St. Paul that putteth al men in subiection to kings out taketh neuer ene and so Secular power oweth and is bound to punish by iust paine of his sword that is wordly power tyrants rebelling against God and trespassing against man by what kind trespasse and that is more to chastise his subiectes by paine and torment of there body and no drede much more he maie punish thē by taking awaie of ther temporalties that is lasse than bodily paine therfor Secular Lords done this rightfully sith this is done by commandement of the Apostle and by ordinance of God and therfore it is plaine of these reasons auctorities and Secular Lords maie leuefullie and medefully in manie cases taken awaie Temporall goods youen to men of the Church The third Article The third Article is this that both Tythes and Offring bene youen and paied and receiued by that entent to which entent both Gods law the Popes law ordained them to be paied and receiued and that the betake away by the same entent and reson that both Gods law the Popes law ordainen that they shoulden be with drawen This axing is reasonable for many skils for the entēt of the maker in euerie law should be kept and most the entent of God that may not erre Sothely thus saith Gods law in the 1. booke of Kings that the sin of Helies childrē was ful great before God for they withdrawen men fro sacrifice of God taking by strength or violence that part of the sacrifice that pertained to the Priest God saith afterwarde I speaking haue spoken that thine house thy Faders house should minister and serue in my sight euermore but now God saith be that thing far fro me but who euer shal worship me I shal glorifie them but they that despisen me saith God shal ben vnnable or without honor of which authoritie it is plaine and open that the things that be due to Priests should not bee axed by strength by violence or cursing but be youen freelie withouten exaction or constraining and if the Priest be reproued of God for his sinnes hee should be put out of his office and the sacrifices shoulden not be yoven to him but taken fro him as God commandeth frō the high Priest Hely and an other trew man walking in Gods waies as did Samuel shoulden be ordained to receiue such sacrifices Also in beginning of Tobie men finden thus whan Priests of the Temple wenten to calveren of gold

chargen more breaking of there own Traditions then breaking of the cōmandements of God For a Fryer shal more bee punished for breaking of one of thē then for breaking of Gods hests For breaking of Gods hests is not charged of them in this they shewen how they loue there own worship more then Gods thus they taken to themselues the worship that is appropred to God and so beene blasphemers and here●…icks so they chargen more there bodilie habit then charitie and other vertues For if a Frier leaue his bodily habite to the which hee is not bound by Gods law he is holden Apostata sharplie pursued sometime to prison sometime to the death though hee serue better God without his habit then therein but though he trespasse against charitie by impatiency and false leasings or pride or covetousnes it is little or naught charged but rather praised if it bring them worldly mucke Cap. 8. Friars great Hypocrits as poore as Christ in shew as sumptuous as Lords and Prelats in deed ALso Fryers fainen them as Hypocrits to keepe streitlie the Gospel and povertie of Christ his Apostles and yet they most cōtrarien to Christ and his Apostles in hypocrisie Pride and covetise For they shewen more holines in bodily habit and other signes then did Christ and his Apostles and for there singular habit or holynes they presume to be evē with Prelats Lords more worthie then other Clarks in covetise they can neuer make an end but by begging by queething by burying by salaries ●…rentals and by shriving by absolutions and other false means crien ever after worldly goods where Christ vsed none of al these and thus for this stinking covetise they wor shippen the Fiend as there God Cap. 9. Their stealing of childrē entising of them to there order ALso Friars drawen children fro Christs religion into their priuate order by hypocrisie leesings and stealing For they tellen that there order is more holy then anie other and that they shall haue higher degree in blisse then other men that beene not therein and sayen that men of there order shal neuer come to hel but shal deeme other men with Christ at Doomes day and so they stealen childer fro father and mother some time such as beene vnable to the order and sometime such as showlden sustaine there father mother by commandement of God And thus they beene blasphemers taking vppon them ful counsel in doutouse things that be not expresly commanded ne forbidden in holie writt sith such counsel is apropried to the holy Ghost And thus they beene therfore cursed of God as the Pharisees were cursed of Christ to whome he saies thus woe be to you Scribes and Pharisees that beene writers of Lawe and men of singular religion that compassen about the water and the lande to make a man of your religion and when he is made of your religion ye maken him dowble more a child of hel And sith he that steales an Oxe or a Cowe is damnable by Gods law and mans also much more he that steales a mans child that is better thē al earthlie goods draws him to the lesse perfit order And thowgh this singular order were more perfit then Christs yet he wote neuer whether it be to damnation of the Childe for hee wote not to what state God hath ordained him and so blindlie they done against Christs ordinance Cap. 10. Curats defrauded of their duties by means of Friars ALso Friars for pride and couetise drawen fro Curats there office and Sacraments in which lyen winning or worship and so maken dissention betwixt Curats and there Ghostlie childer Friars drawē to them confession and burying of rich men by manie subtil meanes and Massepence and Trentals but they wil not come to poore mens Dirige ne receaue them to be buried amongst them And they cryen fast that they haue more power in confessiō thē other Curats for they maie shriue al that come to thē But Curates maie no farther then their owne parishees But Curates sain that sith they shal awnswere before God for the soules of ther sogettis they wil knowe their life Friars saien it is no need for they haue more power then the Curat and thus dissention hate is made betwixt Curats and there children and pride and couetousnes of Friars is cause of al this many other sinns and thus for they maken discord among christian mē they bene hatcd and cursed of God almighty Cap 11. Friars come in vnder the name of Saints forsaken the Rule ALso Friars come in vnder the name of Saints for saken the Saints rule and liue putten there owne errours to the Saints and so slaundrē both them and God For if men speken of Frauncis hee vsed and taught much meeknes pouertie and penance Minours now vsen the contrarie For they maken statuts of their owne will and them they keepen fast and make men to weene that Frauncis made them But Preachou●…s sayen that Dominick founded them thē he kept Austens rule fith he was a Canon before for els he was Apostata if Austens rule were good But Austen would algats sue yea Apostles liuing preachours done euen the contrary And Friar Austens founded then on Austen the great Doctor but his rule speakes not of Friars and so they beene grounded on leasings for they hauen no Patron Saint And of tho carmes knowen men nother founder ne rule and so the Friars that haue founders done against there foūders teaching and Christs also and colouren there owne wicked lawes vnder name of these Saints and so ben grounded on leasings and slaundren there Patrons and Christ also And other Friars that haue no Patrons liuen after themselues puttē there errours on Saints and so slaundren them and Christ and so hypocrisie raignes and sinne is maintained by colour of holynesse Cap. 12. Persecution of true Priests by false Friars ALso Friars pursuen trew Priests and letten them to preach the Gospell notwithstandinge that Christ enioined Priesthood preaching of the Gospel and so they departen that thing that God ioined together and so as much as in them is they foredone Gods ordinance and so they harmen Christian men more cruelly then the Souldan of Sarracens for they beene nere and more malitious For sith Christ charges al his Priests to preach truely the Gospell and they pursuen them for this deed yea to the fier they wil slea Priests for they done Gods bidding and therefore they beene man slaiers and irregular and cursed of God For they letten his people to be saued and so need them to be damned And sith the principal point and end of Christs dyeing and his passion was to saue mans soule and the Principal worke of Sathanas is to leese mens soule they bene traytours to Christ Angels of Sathanas transformed into Angel of light and cruel traitours of al men Cap 13 Capped Friars serued as Lords or Kings at