Tracts and Treatises of John de Wycliffe: With Selections and Translations from His Manuscripts and Latin Works

John Wycliffe

Society, 1845 - Reformation - 332 pages

Contents

• CONTENTS: xiv
• Page: lxxii
• Part: 1
• De Hypocritarum Imposituris: 2
• HI De Obedientia Prelatorum: 10
• De Conversatione Ecclesiasticorum: 13
• Speculum de Antichristo: 22
• Of Clerks Possessioners: 24
• De XXXIII erroribus Curatorum: 26
• Of the Order of Priesthood: 28
• Of good Preaching Priests: 29
• The Great Sentence of the Curse Expounded: 31
• De stipendiis Ministrorum: 43
• De Episcoporum Erroribus: 45
• A short Rule of Life for each man: 46
• Three things destroy the world: 48
• Impedimenta Evangelizantium: 49
• On the Lords Prayer and Ave Maria: 52
• De Diabolo et Membris: 54
• For Three Skills lords should constrain clerks c: 56
• Of Wedded Men and Wives and their Children: 58
• How Antichrist and his clerks travail to destroy Holy Writ: 59
• De dominis divino: 63
• De Papa RomanaSchisma Papæ: 64
• Of Perfect Life: 65
• Of the Seven Deadly Sins: 66
• Vita Sacerdotum: 71
• De Ecclesiæ dominio: 74
• Sermons: 79
• SECTION II: 90
• WYCLIFFES LATIN TREATISE TRIALOGUS SECTION I: 108
• SECTION II: 131
• Showing that the bread remains bread after consecration: 138
• The preceding statements confirmed by argument: 141
• How and from what cause the heresy concerning the sacrament of the Eucharist hath grown up: 144
• In what way the bread is the body of our Lord and not the identical body itself: 147
• On the Identification of the bread with the body of Christ: 150
• Showing that the body of Christ doth not corrupt: 152
• Whether two bodies may be at once in the same place: 154
• On Baptism: 156
• On the Threefold Baptism: 159
• On Confirmation: 161
• On the sacrament of Order: 163
• On the avarice of the clergy: 169
• On their culpability in respect to Endowments: 172
• On Penance: 178
• On the signs of Contrition: 180
• On the Extreme Unction: 182
• Of the various kinds of Ministers: 184
• On the Begging Friars: 186
• Farther showing that the Mendicancy of the Friars is not consistent with Scripture: 188
• On the letter of the Fraternities: 191
• How the Friars falsely sell their prayers and merits: 193
• On Indulgences: 195
• How the orders of Friars were introduced: 199
• In what respect the Friars are contrary to Christ: 202
• Of the other Six Abuses of the Friars: 204
• Showing how the Friars seduce the kingdoms they inhabit: 207
• Of the fraud and malice of the Friars: 210
• Whether Temporal Lords may and should assist and defend their people against Friars: 213
• Part III: 217
• Friars orders perfecter than Christs: 219
• Friars hinder the free preaching of the gospel: 220
• A man once professed to their religion may never leave it: 222
• The lawfulness of begging maintained by Friars: 223
• Friars draw alms from poor and needy men to the maintenance of their sinful and superfluous order: 224
• Traditions of Friars preferred before Christs commandments: 225
• Their stealing of children and enticing of them to their order: 226
• Curates defrauded of their dues by means of Friars: 227
• Persecution of True Priests by False Friars: 228
• Capped friars served as lords or kings at table: 229
• How much and how oft they deceive and cozen the lay people by their letters of fraternity: 230
• Friars pervert the right faith of the sacrament of the altar by making it to be an Accident without a Subject: 231
• Their excess in building of great churches and costly houses and cloisters: 232
• Friars teaching the Vow of Obedience contrary to Gods Law: 233
• How they forsake the perfection of their order for worldly respects: 234
• Their rotten habit esteemed above Christs body: 235
• Friars reprove not their brethren as the Gospel willeth but as themselves will: 236
• Friars lawless in begging the king and mighty ones of the land to maintain their sect begging their alms and beggaring the whole land: 237
• Friars no peacemakers but makebates strive themselves and stirrers up of others to wars and dissension: 238
• Judass children selling Christ and all for money: 239
• Friars most impatient of all men living in bearing reproof: 240
• The holy Scriptures accused by these unholy men of falsehood: 241
• How strongly wedded to their rotten habit: 242
• Their usury simony covetousness extortion rapine and theft: 243
• Friars cannot endure to hear of Christs poverty preached: 244
• Bind their novices to impossible things: 245
• The necessity and multitude of their vain and changeable ceremonies: 246
• Friars under the habit of holiness lead men into sin: 247
• They persuade men to reckon more of their anathemas than of Gods curse: 248
• Exalting themselves above Christ himself: 250
• Friars policy in binding their novices to unknown things: 251
• Friars holier than other men: 252
• Friars dead unto the world but raised by Antichrist to pride covetousness and maintenance of sin: 253
• Spiritual impurity of Friars 254: 254
• Friars most perilous enemies to holy church and to our land: 255
• A COMPLAINT OF JOHN WYCLIFFE EXHIBITED TO THE KING AND PARLIAMENT: 257
• WYCLIFFES WYCKETT WHICH HE MADE IN KING RICHARDS DAYS THE SECOND: 273
• WHY POOR PRIESTS HAVE NO BENEFICES: 285
• ANSWER OF WYCLIFFE TO RICHARD THE SECOND AS TOUCH ING THE RIGHT AND TITLE OF THE KING AND THE POPE: 295
• LETTER OF WYCLIFFE IN EXCUSE TO POPE URBAN VI: 298
• CONFESSION OF WYCLIFFE CONCERNING THE EUCHARIST: 300
• CONFESSION ON THE EUCHARIST DELIVERED TO THE DELE GATES AT OXFORD IN 1382: 301
• Index to the Writings of Wycliffe: 303
• Index to the Life of Wycliffe: 323

Popular passages

Page 177 - For even when we were with you this we commanded you, that if any would not work neither should he eat; for we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busy

Page 177 - But we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more ; and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work •with your own hands, as we commanded

Page 177 - as in the months past, as in the days when God preserved me; when his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness; as I was in the days of my youth.

Page 156 - The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance- with Israel : they shall eat the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and his inheritance. Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the Lord is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.

Page 180 - Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand ; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.'

Page 151 - he was fallen upon none of them : only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.

Page 206 - many unruly and vain talkers, and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision; whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.

Page 115 - For we brought nothing into the •world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment, let us be therewith content;

Page xxv - and arrogant, I will bring down the pride, not of you alone, but of all the prelacy in England. Bishop Courtney. Do your worst, sir. Duke of Lancaster. Thou bearest thyself so brag upon thy parents," which shall not be able to help thee ; they shall have enough to do to help themselves.

Page xxxiii - I say unto you, that he shall make him ruler over all his goods. For the right of the communion of saints in their own

Bibliographic information

• Title: Tracts and Treatises of John de Wycliffe: With Selections and Translations from His Manuscripts and Latin Works; ATLA Historical Monographs Collection; ATLA monograph preservation program; [American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Historical Monographs Collection
• Author: John Wycliffe
• Editor: Robert Vaughan
• Contributor: Wycliffe Society, London
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Society, 1845
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: May 11, 2006
• ISBN: 079056159X, 9780790561592
• Length: 332 pages