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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

Rome and al true Christian men and to find this heresie that this Sacred host is accident withouten subiect or nought sith this is not taught openlie in holie writ and reason and wit is against this and Austin in 3. or 4. great books saies expresly that none accident maie be withouten subiect and al wise Philosophers accorden here with Austin Lord what should moue Christ Almightie al wittie wel willing to hide this beleefe of Friars by a thousand yeare neuer to teach his Apostles and so manie Saints the right beleefe but to teach first these Hypocrits that comen never into the Church til the soule F●…end Sathanas was vnbounden Hereby shoulden al Christiā men know the Friars he resie and not receiue them into there houses before that they confesseden vnder there general Seale the right beleefe of Christian men and had forsaken there old heresie Cap. 17. There excesse in buil ding of great Churches and costly houses Cloisters ALso Friars builden many great Churches costly waste houses and Cloisters as it were Castles and that without need where thorough Parish Churches and common waies beene paired and in manie places vndone And so they teachen in deed that men shoulden haue heritage and dwelling Citie in earth forget Heaven against S. Paul For by this new housing of Friars though it raine on the Auter of the Parish Church the blind people is so deceiued that they will rather giue to waste houses of Friars then to Parish Churches or to common waies though men cattle and beasts beene perished therein Before that Friars comen in there was more people and the earth more plenteous and then were Churches enowgh What skil is it now to make so much cost in new building and let old parish Churches fal downe And if mē sayen that in these great Churches God is fayre served certes great houses make not men holie and onlie by holinesse is God wel serued For in heauen that was so faire Lucifer serued God vntruely and so did Adam in Paradise And Iesu saies that tho great Temple of Hierusalem that was a house of prayer and sometimes Gods house was made a den of thiefes for couetous preachers dwelliden therein But Iob serued Gode full wel on the Dunghil and so did Adam out of Paradise and Christ before when he prayed in hills and desarts and baptisteke And therfore Christ and his Apostles made no great Churches ne Cloisters but wenten fro countrie to countrie preaching the Gospel and teaching men to doe there almes to poore men and not to wast houses For Christ tawght men to praie in spirit and truth that is in good wil and deuotion and holie liuing And to destroie this hypocrisy he ordained the Temple of Hierusalem showld be destroied for sinne done therein Cap. 18. Friars teaching the vow of obedience contrary to Gods law FRiars also destroien obedience of Gods Lawe and magnifien singular obedience made to sinful men and in case to divels which obedience Christ ensampled neuer nether in himselfe ne in his Apostles For by teaching of S. Paul each man owght to be subiect to other in the dread of Christ that is in as much as he teaches them Gods wil no man showld obey more to anie man And euer the more that a mā were the more showld he thus meeke himself as Christ did to al his Apostles But Friars tellen nowght by this obedience but if they maken singular profession to sinful fooles that manie times teachen and commanden them against Gods wil and sayen that in such thinges as ben not expresly commanded ne forfended in Gods law they should algats doe after there Soueraines yea thowgh it be vnwi●…tinglie against Gods wil And sith it is appropred to the holy Ghost to giue ful counsel in such points they maken there sinful Priours euen with the holy Ghost And where they showld bee gouerned in such doutie points by the holy Ghost they leauen his counsel and ruling many times and taken them to the ruling of a sinful foole and in case a damned fiend in hel And thus they leauen obedience that Christ tawght and ensampled as vnperfit not sufficient praysen more fained obedience to sinnfull fooles that they taken of there owne presumption as if such fools had founden perfiter obedience then euer did Christ God and mam Cap. 19. How they forsake the perfection of ther order for wordly respects ALso Friars forsaken perfection of there order for worship of the wordle and couetise and beene not suffren to take the freedome of the Gospell for to preach Gods word to the people For Friars ben made Byshops yea many times by Simonie sworē strongly to goe and preach and conuert heathen men and leauen this Ghostlie office and beene Suffragans in England and robben men by extortions as in punishing of sinne for money suffren men to lie in sinne fro yeare to yeare for an annuel rent and so in hollowing of Churches and Church-yards and Auters and commonly al other Sacraments for money And thus these Friars Byshopps liuen commonly euer after in Simonie pride and robberie and thus they beene exempt by Caiphas Byshoppricke fro all good obseruances of Godes lawe and of there owne order and bee free to liue in sinne and to robbe our land and envenime it by manie cursings And so they bearen out first the golde of our lande to Aliens and sometimes to our enemies to get of Antichrist this false exemption euer after liue in robbing of poore men maintainen much sin cursing simonie that is passing heresie And other Bishops of thē that haue Dioceses in this land forsaken povertie and penance and obedience for they looken to be Masters of al Friars of that order in this land and to liue in pride lusts of there flesh idlenes and spoiling of the people more subtilly thē other And thus a Friar shal dwel in Courts of Lords and Ladies to be there Confessour and not displease them for nothing though they liuen in never so cursed sins for to liue in his lusts and to get falselie mucke to Antichrists covent let poore men of there almes and thereto he shal haue leaue commaundement vpon vertue of obedience but he shal no leaue haue to go generallie about in the world and preach truelie the Gospel without begging and liue an open poore and iust life as Christ and his Apostles didden For this were destroying of there fained order And therefore they louen more pride covetise lustes of there owne flesh then the worship of God and heale of mans soule And thus they maken sacrifice to Lucifer to Mammon and to there owne stinking bellie Cap. 20. There rotten habit esteemed aboue Christs bodie ALso Friars praisen more there rotten habit then the worshipful body of our Lord Iesu Christ. For they teachen Lordes and namelie Ladies that if they dien in Fraunces habit they shall never come in

to honor thē for Gods of Ieroboam King of Jsrael made Tobie offride truly al his first fruits and tithes So that in the third yeere Tobie ministred al his tithes to proselytis and comelings or guests and withdroweth them wholie fro the wicked Priests and the booke saith that the Litle Child kept these things and other such after the law of God Therefore if our Prelats or other Priests what euer they bene openly blecked by sacrifice of maumetry as with coveitise that is openlie sacrifice of false Gods and other great sinnes as Pride Symonie and Manquelling Glotanie drunkennes and Lecherie by the same skil tithes and off●…ings should be withdrawen from them by Gods law and bee youen to poore needie men at ensample of rightfull Tobie Also S. Paul speaking to Timothe Bishop saith thus Be we pay with these things if we han lifelode and to be hiled with And S. Barnard speaketh thus in this matter what euer thou takest to thee of thine entrage that is Dymes and offrings beside simple lifelode and streit clothing it is not thine it is theft ravine and sacrilege Whereof it sueth plainely that not onlie simple Priests and Curats but also Soveraine Curats as Bishops should not axe there subiects by constraining more than lifelode and heling whan they done awaie al manner wast both of monie and worldlie array Also Christ with his Apostles liued most poore life as it is knowne by al the processe of the Gospel nothing chalenging by exaction ne constraining but liued simplie and scarcelie enough of almes freelie and wilfullie youē therefore they that pretenden them to ben principal followers of Christs steps should liue and walke as Christ did and so lead ful poore life taking of things freely youen as much as neede is for there ghostly office and no more and therewith bee apaied Also the Popes law commandeth in the best part thereof that Priests open Lechours takē no part of portiō of goods of the Church therefore it is lawfully to parisheners to withhold there tithes for open fornication of there Curat and turne them into better vse much more they may and owen to withdraw there tithes for great sinnes and open as for Symonie that is heresie as the Popes law saith and for couetousnes that is worshipping of Gods as holie writ saith and for pride envie gluttonie and dronkennes sith both by Gods law and mans law God curseth such mens blessing prayings as S. Austen S. Gregorie teachen this in many books by holie writ and reason Also commonlie whan parrish Churches bene appropred to men of singular religiō sith appropriation is made by false suggestion that such religious men hā not enough for lifelode and healing but in truth they han overmuch Also commonlie such Churches bene appropred by Simonie as they wittē better them selfe paying a great summe of mony for such appropriatiō if the benefice be fat But what man led by reason good conscience shoulde paie to such religious men tithes and offrings gotten by falsenes leasings and Simonie But suppose that such parrish Churches weren lawfullie gotten yet sith they bene superflue ●…o such men the tithes offrings shoulden ben youē to poore needie men as S. Ierom and the Popes law teachen therefore the true great Clarke Robert Grosted Bishop of Lincolne writeth to the Pope that when appropriation of parish Churches is made to men of Religion of fourteene great sinnes and defauts that commen of evil Curats is made a perpetuation that is endles confirmation also by God and his law Curats ben michel more bounden to teachē there subiects charitablie the Gospel and Gods hests both by open preaching ensample of good life for to saue there soules than there subiects bene holden to payen them tithes offrings and of this suen twey things The first if Curats do not there office in word and in ensample that God cōmādeth than there subiects be not bounden to pay them tithes and offrings sith the principall cause for which tithes and offrings should be paied is away the paying of tithes should cease Also Curats bene more cursed in withdrawing this teaching in word ensample thā bene Parisheners withdrawing tithes and offrings though Curats dudden wel there office A Lord God where this be reason to constraine the poore people to finde a worldlie Priest sometime vnable both of life and cunning in pompe and pride covetise and envie glottonie drunkennes and leacherie in Simonie and heresie with fat horse and iolie gaie saddels and bridles ringing by the waie and himselfe in costlie cloathes and pelure and to suffer their wiues children and there poore neighbors perish for hunger thirst and cold and other mischiefes of the worlde A Lorde Jesu Christ sith with in few yeares men paied there tithes offerings at there owen wil free to good men and able to great worship of God to profit and fairenes of holie church fighting in earth Where it were lawful and needful that a wordlie Priest should destroie this holie and approved custome constraining men to leaue this freedome turning tithes offrings into wicked vses or not so good as they weren don before times The fourth Article The fourth Article is this that Christs teaching beleaue of the Sacrament of his owne bodie that is plainlie tawght by Christ and his Apostles in Gospels and Pistles maie be tawght openlie in Churches of Christen people and the contrarie teaching and false beleue is brought vp by cursed Hypocrits hereticks and wordlie Priests vnkunning in Gods law which seeme that they are Apostles of Christ but are fools Also Christ would not take the kingdome whan the people would haue made him king as Ihons Gospell ●…elleth but if it had be a Priests office to deale about thus bodyly almes Christ that coude best haue doe this office wold haue take these temporal goods to deale them among poore men but hee wolde not doe thus but flie and tooke noe man of the Apostles with him so fast hee hiede Lorde where than wordlie Priests kunnē better don this parting of wordly goods of Iesu Christ if they sayn that Christ fed the people in desart with bodily alms many thousād as the gospel saith that did Christ by miracle to shew his God head to teach Priests how they feed ghostly Christen mē by Gods word for so did Christs Apostles and had not wherof to doe bodely almes whan they mighten haue treasure and meales enowgh of Kings and Lords Also Peter saith in deeds of Apostles to a poore man that to him neither was gold ne siluer and yet he performed wel the office of a trewe Priest But our Priests ben so busie about wordlie occupation that they seemen better Baylifs or ●…eues than ghostlie Priests of Jesu Christ. For what man is so busie about marchandise other wordly doings as bene Preists that showld bee light of heauenlie life to al men about them but