The morning star of the Reformation: the life and times of John de Wycliffe

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Religious Tract Society, 1881 - 160 páginas
 

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Página 123 - Christ, under the appearance of bread and wine ? Q. What do you mean by the appearances of bread and wine ? A. The taste, color, and form of bread and wine, which still remain, after the bread and wine are changed into the body and blood of Christ.
Página 2 - Yea, his dry bones to ashes are consumed And flung into the brook that travels near ; Forthwith, that ancient Voice which Streams can hear Thus speaks (that Voice which walks upon the wind, Though seldom heard by busy human kind) — " As thou these ashes, little Brook ! wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, Into main Ocean they, this deed accurst An emblem yields to friends and enemies How the bold Teacher's Doctrine, sanctified By truth, shall spread, throughout...
Página 139 - Ireland, or in any other territory or kingdom I shall come to; and do my utmost to extirpate the heretical Protestants' doctrine, and to destroy all their pretended powers, regal or otherwise. I do further promise and declare, that, notwithstanding I am dispensed with to assume any religion heretical for the propagating of the mother-church's interest, to keep secret and private all her agents...
Página 81 - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over
Página 12 - ... resigned England and Ireland to God, to St. Peter and St Paul, and to pope Innocent, and his successors in the apostolic chair: He agreed to hold these dominions as feudatory of the church of Rome, by the annual payment of a thousand marks...
Página 111 - I spoke as a child, I understood as a child ; but when, in God's strength, I became a man, I put away, by His grace, childish thoughts.
Página 26 - Scripture, learning, and divinity, were known but to a few, and that in the schools only ; and there also they turned and converted almost all into sophistry. Instead of Peter and Paul, men occupied their time in studying Aquinas and Scotus, and the Master of Sentences.
Página 35 - ... and most commonly more : that cardinals and other aliens remaining at the Court of Rome, whereof one cardinal is a Dean of York, another of Salisbury, another of Lincoln, another...
Página 103 - And since secular men should assuredly " understand the faith, it should be taught them " in whatever language is best known to them. " Inasmuch, also, as the doctrines of our faith " are more clearly and precisely expressed in the " scriptures, than they may possibly be by priests, " — seeing, if one may venture so to speak, that " many prelates are but too ignorant of scripture...
Página 65 - Many think if they give a penny to a pardoner, they shall be forgiven the breaking of all the commandments of God, and therefore they take no heed how they keep them. But I say this for certain, though thou have priests and friars to sing for thee, and though thou, each day, hear many masses, and found churches and colleges, and go on pilgrimages all thy life, and give all thy goods to pardoners, this will not bring thy soul to heaven.

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