LIFE OF WICLIF. [John Wycliffe.] (Vol. 1 of Harper Theological Library.)

by Le Bas, Charles Webb

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NY:: J. & J. Harper,, 1832. Hardcover; lacks portrait; ink name inside front cover + front endpaper; light to moderate foxing throughout, but clearly readable; cover tips bumped.. + appendix + 8pp. publisher's book ads. Wycliffe (ca. 1330-84), English theologian, often styled `The Morning Star of the Reformation,' maintained Scripture, not Roman Church man-made rules, were highest expressions of Divine Law, & the Scriptures should be read by laymen in their own language--he promoted translating the Latin Vulgate into English. His doctrines fueled Milic's & Huss's revolt against Roman Church temporal authority, clerical wealth, simony, selling Papal indulgences, etc. Though condemned in Papal bulls as a heretic, Wycliffe died a natural death & was buried in consecrated ground (1384). 44 years later--in 1428--Pope Clement VIII ordered Wycliffe's remains exhumed, burned, & cast in the sea.