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The Lay Folks' Catechism, or the English and Latin versions of Archbishop Thoresby's Instruction for the People

Together with a Wycliffite adaptation of the same, and the corresponding canons of the council of Lambeth. With introduction, notes, glossary, and index, by the late Thomas Frederick Simmons ... and Henry Edward Nolloth

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Was his owne god wyl and his goo[d]nesse.
thorw þe whiche godnesse. as he ys al good.
he wolde þat sum creaturis of þo þat he made
were commeneris of þat blys þat euyr lastys.
And for no creature miȝt come to þat blys
withoute knowynge of god as þe clerk techys.