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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

themselues glorie due vnto other men and somtimes to God him selfe ALso Friars seeken busily there own worldlie worship and putten the worship of God behinde against the teaching of Jesu Christ and S. Paule yea that is worse they taken vpon themselues glorie that is appropred to God and so maken them euē with God for they seeken fast by great gifts and vaine costs to be called Maisters of Diuinitie and speake before Lords and sit at the meate with them and not to teach truly the Gospel to al manner of men by meeke life freelie as Christ bids Also to be Confessours of Lords and Ladies algats to be much told by and fare wel and not seeke poore men though they haue more neede And so of other busines of Friars who so takes good sight to them For if a Friar doe little wel that shal bee praised algats but if another man do much better that shal be lacked or despised Also they shullen sweare by him that they callen Patron of there order and leaue God behinde yet they done so for worship of there owne Patron and there owne Sect and natheles God teache to sweare by him in need and not by his Creatures but for there prowde swearing and ydel they de spisen God and there Patron also Cap. 41. Exalting themselues aboue Christ himselfe FRiars yet highen yet falsly thē selfe aboue Christ. For where Christ bids that men trow not to him but if he do the workes of the Father of Heauen Friars chalengen that men trust and obay to them as needful to souls health when they done not the works of God For els they maie not aske that men doe after them when they witten not whether the thing that they commanden is against Gods dome or there wit And thus no man shoulde doe after them but when they teachen certainely the heasts of God or his counsailes lest men doing after there teaching in this do against the wil of God but farewel then this new fained obedience with this new profession Cap. 42. Christs rule no sufficient warrant for them to be ruled by ALso Friars falsely enhaunsen themselues aboue Christ and his Apostles For they wil not be paied with Christs rule in the Gospel to teach truly the Gospel and haue meate and drinke freelie of a good man and devout to God ne be apaied with food and hylling as Christ and his Apostles weren but they robben Curats of there office and ghostlie worship and letten them to know Gods law by holding bookes fro them with drawing of there vantages by which they shulden haue books and lerne And also they robben Lords of there rents some by more hypocrisie taken free annual rents of Lords cofers and they robben the Commons of there liuelode by hypocrisie false begging damned by Gods law And thus at the beginning they fainen them most poore of al Clarkes but at the last they passen al other in great Houses and costlie Libraries and great feasts many other prides and covetises and euer they passen foule Christ his Apostles For where Christ had not to rest in his head Friars fained beggars haue Lordly places that almost thorough Englād they may ech night lie on there own Cap. 43 Friars policie in binding there nouices to vnknowē things FRiars also of great cautele binding nouices to vn knowen thinge For they will not suffer them to knowe there priuities of there rule and there life til that they ben professed then they shullen not be suffered to leaue there rule thowgh they witten wel that they maie not keepe it and this is openly against Christs teaching and Iohns Gospel For Christ saies that he spake openly to the world and in hiddennes nothing Friars done here fullie the contrarie For first they shewen great deuotion and sweetnes of holy life to yong childre til they be professed and then maistren them by tyrauntrie to doe manie thinges against there conscience and so needen them to goe to Hell or to prison or some time to cruel death Cap. 44 Mispenders of the treasure of this land ALso Friars beene wasters of treasure of our land by manie blind and vn●…kilfull manners For first they blinden them blindlie fro freedome of the Gospel and then spenden much gold to get them dispensatiō And manie times bring vaine pardons couuienales other vaine priuileges in al this the gold of our land goes out and Symoney and curse and bold nesse in sinne comes againe And God wote where priuities of our land beene thus shewed to our ennemies And God wote where matrimonie be thus departed for monie by such Friars makeing false suggestion and false pursuit after Also it seemes that in this they magnifien a sinful caitife and in ca●…e a damned fiend more then God almightie For they dare not by free graunt of god doe a good thinge to please him therewith but if they haue leaue of such a sinnful caitife and if they haue leaue of such an vnwittie caytif they dare doe against Gods pleasing an vnreasonnable thing and sinful and slaunderous to al christian men Cap. 45. Friars holier then other men FRiars also by Lucifers pride highen themselues holden them hollier thē al other out of there sect for as much as they binden thē to new Traditions of sinful mē the which ben ful of errour over the most sufficient rule of Jesu Christ that left no profitable ne needful thing out of his rule For though a Priest or Bishop do neuer so truly the office that God bade Priests do yet they saien he is more holie if hee come to there new fained religion and obedience But sith boasting and reioicing of sinne is one of the greatest sinnes of al and these Friars boasten so much of there sinful errour how they haue founden a better religion then Christ made for his Apostles and Priests it seemes they been most sinful and cursedlie prowde ouer al other wicked men For it seemes that they maken themselues wiser then Christ more wittie and more ful of charitie sith they teachen better way to heauen then did Christ as they fainen Cap 46. Friars altogether ●…et vppon couetousnes ALso Friers setten more by stinking dirt of wordly goods then they done by vertues and goods of ●…lisse For if a Caymes castel of Friars has much dirt of worldly goods though the Friars therein be ful of pride covetise Symonie and false robberie by false begging flattring yet they saien that that rich House is better then a poore house of Friars though they liven in meeknes povertie and penance and much holines And they travellen more to get dirt of this worlde then to get the blisse of heauen and they commenden more a Friar that con subtillie thicke get this worldly dirt then an other that con doe teach much vertuous life And thus these Friars make sacrifice to false Gods for there coveti●…e and forsaken God

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

Hel for vertue thereof and certes this is an open heresie damning all that trusten thus into there liues end But a man maie haue the Sacrament of the Auter that is verie Gods bodie in his mouth and straight flee to Hel withouten end the more be damned for the evil taking of this Sacrament Such Heretickes beene vnable to be amongst Christian men Cap. 21. Friars begge without need whē the poore want without remorse See Chap. 6. Also Friars beggen withouten need for there own rich Sect not for there poore bedradden men that maie not goe and haue no man to sende for there liuelode but rather drawen rich mens almes fro such poore men And therefore charitie is outlawed among them and so is God leasings covetise and Fiends beene enhabited among them for they decea ven men in there almes to make costlie houses not to harbour poore men but Lords and mightie men and teachen men to suffer Gods Temple that beene poore men to perish for default thus they beene traitours to God and his rich people whom they deceaven in there almes and manquellers of poore men whose liuelode they taken awaie fro them by false leasings therefore they beene irregular before God despisen him and harmen the people when they saien Masse or Matines in this cursed life as Holy writ teaches and Austin and Gregorie declaren fullie Cap 22. Friars reproue not there Brethrē as the Gospell willeth but as thēselues wil. FRiars also keepen not correption of the Gospel against there brethren that trespassen but cruellie done them to paineful prison but this is not the meeke suing of Iesu Christ for he his Apostles prisoneden not sinful men in this life but sharplie reproved there sinne and at the last when they would not amend them taughten good men not to cōmune with them But these Friars shewen there tyrantrie at the ful who so knew wel there paines and torments and it seemes no wisedome ne profit to giue Friars power to prison men For when the King by his officers prisōs a man that is commonly done for great open trespasse and that is good warning to other misdoe●…s and some profit comes of the Kings Ministers But vvhen Friars prisonen their brethren the paine is not knowē to mē thowgh the sinne were neuer so open slaunderous and that does harme to other liege men and profit of Kings Ministers is away And when the potestatis of Friars beene proud couetous and sinfull and haten the truth they will soone prison trewe men that reprouen there sinnes and spare other shrewes that they maie flatter them and mainetaine them in there sinne and so beside the Kinges leaue tormenten trewe men for they wolden doe Gods heasts sith the king graunts occasion thereto the King is holdē to reuoke and let Friars prisoning lest he bee guilty of the sinne that comes therby sith he may destroy it does not thus did beggers Friars leapen vp to Kings power and manie times more then the Kinges dare doe and maken the King the Fiends torment or to prison trew men for they saien the troth And so the King stoppes Gods law to be knowen in his land and nourishes euill men and prisons good For this dread and manie moe showld the King revoke this prisoning make Clarks be ruled after the Gospel by simplenesse and holy liuinge Cap. 23. Friars lawlesse egging the King and the mightie ones of the land to maintaine there sect begging there almes beggering the whole land ALso Friars maken our Lond lawles for they leaden Clarks and namely rulen Prelas and Lords and Ladies and Commons also and they beene not ruled by Godes lawe ne lawes of the Church ●…e lawes of the King For they glosen Gods lawes as them likes and been exempt fro Byshops and other ordinaries leaden the Byshops of Rome as them likes And men saien they beene not liege men to the King ne subiect to his lawes For thowgh they stealen mens children it is said there goes no lawe vppon thē and that seemes wel for they robben the Kings liege men by false begginge of sixtie thowsande marke by yeare as men dowbten reasonablie yet they be not punished therefore And the lawlesse Friars by there false ruling maken our lande lawlesse For they letten Clarkes Lords and Commons to knowe the truth of holy writ and maken them to pursue trew men to the death for they teachen the commandements of God and crien to the people the foule sinnes of false Friars And thus falsnesse is maintained and false men beene raised to great estats and truth is put on back trewe men been pursued yea to prisoning to losse of al there goods and to sharp iudgement for as much as they wowlden destroy sinne that was openly and cursedly done and in point for to fordoe our land And of this ruling beene Friars most guiltie for they leaden Prelats Lords and Ladies Justices and other men by confession and tellen them not speedely there sinnes For if they tellen them there sinnes and they wowld not amend them the Friars that beene there confessours showlden leaue them vp as Christ and Paul teachen but they done not thus for then they showlden leese winning and fauour of the wordle And thus for loue of money and welfare of there body they leaden our land out of the lawe of God and alrighteousnes Cap 24. Friars no peace-make is but makebates striuers themselues stirrers vp of others to warrs dissentions ALso Friars beene irregular Procuratours of the fiend to make and maintaine warres on christiā men and ennemies of peace charitie For Friars counsellen and openly preachen that men shoulē flee to heauen withouten paine if they woulden goe and slea in there owne person or maintaine and finde one at there cost to slea christian men And the ende was to make Christs Vikar most rich to the wordle the which Vikar showld be most poore ●…suing in this most highlie Christ his Apostles But Christ died to make peace charitie if men mighten thus freely graunt pardon they showlden yea to leese there owne life graunt pardon to make peace Yet they preachen noe pardon ne meede to make peace and charitie And yet they been bounden of God to make men siker to haue the blisse of heauen if they wil truly procure for peace and charitie But of the pardon that men vsen to daie fro the Court of Rome they haue no sikernes by holy writ ne reason ne ensample of Christ of his Apostles And so of other warrs and debats that Friars mighten let if they wolden and sith they done not but rather counsel thereto and comforten men therin and tellen not the peril of them they been cause and Procuratours of al war●…s specially of this warre in Flaunders for they preacheden that haden it forth against the King the Duke and other Lords and Clarks

freedome of the Gospel thē the husband is with his wife by ordinance of God For the husband maie lawfully be absent from his wife by a month an halfe yeare sometime seauen yeare by cōmō consent of them both by al there life But if a Friar be out of his rotten habit yea an houre he is Apostata though he loue more God serue him better and profit more to christian men And they puttē more holynes in there rottē habit thē euer did Christ or his Apostles in there clothes For Christ was thrise on a day out of his clothes and yet hee was not Apostata But they chargen so much this rotten habit for therby the people weanes that they beene holy and giuen them more dirt then is needful or profitable therefore ech partie drawes an other to hel So Friars for there false taking of almes whē no need is ne haue they leaue of Gods law thereto blind the people for they drawen there almes fro there poore and needie neighbours where they showlden doe it by the heast of God and maintainen Friars in there false begginge hypocrisie and other sinnes manie Cap. 30. The Popes dispensation or commandement of the superior more regarded then Christs commandement ALso Friars teachen that it is not lawefull to a Priest or anie other man to keepe the Gospell in his bounds and cleannes withouten errour of sinnful men but if he haue leaue therto of Antichrist And thus they sayen it is not lawful to a Christian mā to doe Gods commandement but if a fiend giue them leaue therto as if the leaue commandement of God be not enowgh thereto For they saien that a Priest that has bounden himselfe to errours of sinful men by new profession maie not goe to the freedome of the Gospel and liue thereafter as Christ tawght Priestes but if they haue dispensation of the Pope And J suppose that he be Judas and shal be damned then he is a diuel as Christ saies then it is plaine sith this Priest maie not keepe the Gospel in his freedome withoutē his leaue and he is in this case a diuel then a Priest may not keepe the commandementes of God withouten leaue of a fiend But for to get this leaue is our golde giuen to Aliens and sometime our enemies yet the Priest shal be bounden commonlie to the rotten habit and be exempt fro goodnes and bolded in sinne Cap. 31 There vsery Symony Couetousnes extortion sapine theft ALso Friars beene receit and a swallow of Symonie of vsurie of extortions of rauines of theft and a neast or hoord of Mammons treasure For thowgh men liuen in Symonie they wil not counsaile them and charge them in shrift to resigne there benefice but comfort them to hold it stil and bringe them much dirt thereof and they will vndertake for there sinn And so of vsurers they chargen them not speedelie to make restitution but rather colouren this sinne to be partner of this winning and so of other robberie they receauen it priuelie and so maintainen colouren thefts in there theft where other liege men should be punished therefore and so they beene more couetous then the wicked Jewes that bowghten Christ for they wowld not take the money of Judas and doe it to there money ne treasour for it was the price of Christs bloud for Christ was sold and traied to death for that money But Friars wil receaue money gotten by as great sinnes or more to make great houses and great feasts to Lordes and not buie a field to burie in pilgrimes as the Iewes didden but rather laien it vp in there treasure to maintaine wrongs against there Curates and other poore men by false plea at Roome and marchandise in England Cap. 32. Friars cannot indure to heare of Christs pouertie preached FRiars also crien lowd that poore Priests beene hereticks for they teachē by Gods law how Clarks showlden keepe wilful pouertie and Christs Gospel and the King and Lordes owen to compell them thereto And thus they damnen holy writ the kings regalree For sith poore Priestes haue tawght both in English and in latin how many open laws both in the old Testament and in the new forfend al Priestes Deacons to haue secular Lordshipp and these lawes beene confirmed by Christs life and his Apostles and Friars saien that this is heresie they damnen openlie holie writ and sith the Kinges regalie askes by old stat●…te that the King maie in manie in case take Temporalties fro Clarkes and Friars saien that this takeing is errour against Gods law they damnen this rightful regalie of our King and also our Kings and Lords as heretickes if they maintaine this rightful lawe to stable peace of our Realme And sith by Gods law the office of the King and Lords is to praise reward maintaine good and rightful men and to chastise sharply wicked mē constraine Clarks to hold the state that Christ put them in and algates wilfull pouertie Friars saie if the King and Lords done there office of Godes lawe that they beene foule hereticks But whie showlde the king maintaine in his land such traitours both to God and him and cruel ennemies of al Christian men Cap. 33. Friars like theeues co●…g into the Church by the window not by the dore ALso Friars beene theeues both night theeues and daie theeues entring into the Church not by the dore that is Christ. For withouten auctoritie of God they maken new religions of errours of sinful men and yet they maken worse rules ever the longer that they lasten they seeken not meeklie the worship of God and profit of Christian mens soules this thing they musten do if they comen in by Christ but they chosen finden a new order lesse perfit and profitable then is that that Christ made himselfe and so they maken division in Priesthed against the cōmandement of God and sith they beene not grounded on Christ his law they moten needs be drawen vp and the ordinance of Christ mot stond in his cleannes and perfection Cap. 34. Bindē there novices to impossible things ALso Friars by hipocrisie binden them to impossible thing that they maie not do for they binden them over the commandements of God as they saien themselues but they maie doe no more then the commandement of God For God bids in his most commandement that thou shalt loue the Lord thy God of al thy hart of al thy life of al thy mind of al thy strengthes mights but who maie doe more then this No man Then they binden them to more then they maie do sith it si not counsaile of Christ to make singular profession to a sinful Jdeot and in case a Diuel and they bidden thē to such one that they done ouer the coūsaile of Christ but al that is over the coūsaile of Christ is algats euil sith Christs counsailes to ech good thing And thus manie blind