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Excerpt from 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 Corresponding Canons of the Council of Lambeth; With Introduction, Notes, Glossary, and Index
And then follow the Constitutions in very much the same form as that in which they are printed in our text which con sists of the Lambeth Canons, ix - xiii. They run in the name of the Archbishop, who begins by stating his desire to remedy present evils, and his hope to make progress in that direction, by the favour of Christ, and with the assistance of his brethren and bishops. Ignorance on the part of the clergy is the source of error in the people whom they are bound to guide. Therefore he directs that every priest shall explain to his people simply and clearly, four times a year, the Creed, the ten commandments, the two precepts of the Gospel, viz. Love to God and man, the seven works of mercy, the seven deadly sins, the seven cardinal virtues, and the seven sacra ments of grace. Furthermore, lest any priest should put forward the excuse of ignorance, he (the Archbishop) will explain brie?y in what these things consist. And a short and simple exposition of the elements of faith and practice, completes this division of the Canons of the Council of Lambeth.
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