The Lollard Bible and Other Medieval Biblical Versions

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The University Press, 1920 - 483 pages
 

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Page 196 - ... .the fourteen articles of the faith, the ten commandments of the decalogue, the two precepts of the gospel, the seven works of mercy, the seven mortal sins, the seven principal virtues, and the seven sacramental graces.
Page v - The historian, whatever be his subject, is as definitely bound as the chemist "to proclaim certainties as certain, falsehoods as false, and uncertainties as dubious." Those are the words, not of a modern scientist, but of the seventeenth century monk, Jean Mabillon ; they sum up his literary profession of faith. Men will follow us in history as implicitly as they follow the chemist, if only we will form the chemist's habit of marking clearly where our facts end and our inferences begin. Then the...
Page 211 - Heggenet, o Monke of Chester Abbey, who was thrise at Rome, before he could obtaine leaue of the Pope to haue them in the English tongue. The Whitsun playes were playd openly in pageants by the Cittizens of Chester in the Whitsun Weeke. Nicholas the fift Then was Pope in the year of our Lord 1447.
Page 5 - More,2 writing about 1 530, affirms that " the whole Bible was, long before Wycliffe's days, by virtuous and well-learned men, translated into the English tongue; and by good and godly people, with devotion and soberness, well and reverently read For as for old translations, before Wycliffe's time, they remain lawful and be in some folks
Page 12 - For it is not much above one hundred years ago, since Scripture hath not been accustomed to be read in the vulgar tongue within this realm : and many hundred years before that, it was translated and read in the Saxons...
Page 24 - Since your excellency has asked that we would allow the divine office to be said among you in Slavonic, know that we can by no means favourably answer this your petition. For it is clear to those who reflect often upon it, that not without reason has it pleased Almighty God that holy scripture should be a secret in certain places, lest, if it were plainly apparent to all men, perchance it would be little esteemed and be subject to disrespect; or it might be falsely understood by those of mediocre...
Page 31 - For such is the depth of divine scripture, that not only the simple and illiterate, but even the prudent and learned, are not fully sufficient to try to understand it.
Page 354 - And therefore, losell ! is it, that thou covetest to have again the Psalter that I made to be taken from thee at Canterbury, to record sharp verses against us ! But thou shalt never have that Psalter, nor none other book, till that I know that thy heart and thy mouth accord fully to be governed by Holy Church.
Page 6 - Bibles fair and old written in English, which have been known and seen by the bishop of the diocese, and left in laymen's hands, and women's, to such as he knew for good and catholic folk. But of truth, all such as are found in the hands of heretics, they use to take away.
Page 367 - Phip, for burning of his books, that he was foul to blame, for they were worth a hundred marks. To whom John answered, that he had rather burn his books, than that his books should burn him.

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