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Page xix - 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.
Page xix - But now, such the spleen of the council of Constance, as they not only cursed his...
Page xix - Burning of Wickliffe's Body by Order of the Council of Constance.—" Hitherto [AD 1428] the corpse of John Wickliffe had quietly slept in his grave about forty-one years after his death, till his body was reduced to bones, and his bones almost to dust. For though the earth in the chancel of Lutterworth, in Leicestershire, where he was interred, hath not so quick a digestion with the earth of Aceldama, to consume flesh in twentyfour hours, yet such the appetite thereof, and all other English graves,...
Page xii - And had it not been the obstinate perverseness of our prelates against the divine and admirable spirit of...
Page xix - ... Christian burial. In obedience hereunto, Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln, diocesan of Lutterworth, sent his officers (vultures with a quick sight and scent at a dead carcase) to ungrave him.
Page xviii - Circumcision ; and in the same year, that is on the day of the Holy Innocents, as he was hearing mass in his church at Lyttyrwort, at the time of the elevation of the host, he fell down, smitten by a severe (magna) paralysis, especially in the tongue, so that neither then nor afterwards could he speak, to the moment of his death.
Page 118 - Wickliff was holden of full many men the greatest clerk that they knew then living, and therewith he was named a passing ruly man and an innocent in his living...
Page 168 - What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? ' God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?
Page 29 - ... a clene lif, and be ful deuout in preiers, and haue not his wit ocupied about worldli thingis, that the Holi Spiryt, autour of wisdom, and kunnyng, and truthe, dresse him in his werk, and suffre him not for to erre.
Page 159 - Immediately therefore I sent to thee ; and thou hast well done that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.