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Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate a Short History of England
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Historical SummaryThe following are some of the sayings of the Lollard preachers as reported by Knighton.
Chronicon Henrici Knighton, R. S., Vol. 92, pt. 2, p. 174. World History 155. A Lollard Sermon
These are the opinions of another man whom I heard preach.
That if an ecclesiastic failed in his duty and did not correct his fault, it was permitted to the secular lords to cut such a man’s hair through his shoulders, even if his tonsure was large and newly cut, — that is to say, to cut off his head. Similarly, if a temporal lord failed in his duty and did not correct his fault, it was permitted to the people to correct him.
On a certain Palm Sunday he preached that to multiply words of the lips in prayer is nothing but, in English, to "blabber with the lips."
That to pay money for saying the Psalter is of no avail.
That to pay money for celebrating mass is of no avail unless one has lived well; that if one has lived well he always prays, and that to live well takes the place of prayer.
Likewise he preached that the suffering of Christ which he suffered in his passion was greater than the entire suffering of hell.
In the same sermon he said that Christ never commanded any one to beg. And he preached this same thing in other places. Likewise, that Christ never said in the sacred scripture that he wished that a man should abandon all his property and retain nothing for himself.
Likewise that every saying of Christ is a command.
Likewise that no one ought to give alms to another who has better clothing and a better house than the one giving.
Likewise that no one is truly a prelate nor fit to be one unless he is a learned man and a preacher. . . .
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Chicago: "A Lollard Sermon," Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate a Short History of England in Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate a Short History of England, ed. Edward Potts Cheyney (1861-1947) (Boston: Ginn, 1935, 1922), 268–269. Original Sources, accessed December 26, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=9QVQJPYLVB1L6GP.
MLA: . "A Lollard Sermon." Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate a Short History of England, in Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate a Short History of England, edited by Edward Potts Cheyney (1861-1947), Boston, Ginn, 1935, 1922, pp. 268–269. Original Sources. 26 Dec. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=9QVQJPYLVB1L6GP.
Harvard: , 'A Lollard Sermon' in Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate a Short History of England. cited in 1922, Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate a Short History of England, ed. , Ginn, 1935, Boston, pp.268–269. Original Sources, retrieved 26 December 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=9QVQJPYLVB1L6GP.
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