John Wiclif, His Doctrine and Work: An Address at the Lincoln Diocesan Conference, on Thursday, Oct. 16th, 1884

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Williamson, 1889 - 39 pages
 

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Page 19 - Every particular or national Church hath authority to ordain, change, and abolish, Ceremonies or Rites of the Church ordained only by man's authority, so that all things be done to edifying.
Page 27 - Wherefore let us not fear to be herein bold and peremptory, that if any thing in the church's government, surely the first institution of bishops was from heaven, was even of God ; the Holy Ghost was the author of it.
Page 21 - Although in the visible Church the evil be ever mingled with the good, and sometimes the evil have chief authority iu the ministration of the Word and Sacraments ; yet forasmuch as they do not the same in their own name, but in Christ's, and do minister by his commission and authority, we may use their ministry, both in hearing- the Word of God, and in receiving of the Sacraments.
Page 23 - ... where our Church did lurk, in what cave of the earth it slept for so many hundreds of years together before the birth of Martin Luther ? As if we were of opinion that Luther did erect a new Church of Christ. No, the Church of -Christ which was from the beginning, is, and continueth unto the end. Of which Church all parts have not been always equally sincere and sound.
Page 29 - I. The power of Christ and the Holy Spirit, as the principal, or properly efficient cause. 2. Prayers, thanksgivings, benedictions, as the conditional cause, or instrumental. 3. The words of our Lord, " This is my " body, this is my blood," as declarative of what then was, promissory of what should be always. I shall throw in a few remarks upon the several heads in their order. I. As to the power of Christ and the Holy Spirit, (in conjunction with God the Father,) I suppose, the ancients might infer...
Page 13 - If he had lived a few years longer, he would have seen his prediction fulfilled in a little more than half the time he had allowed for it.
Page 10 - Thomas of Canterbury, John Wycliffe, the organ of the devil, the enemy of the Church, the idol of heretics, the image of hypocrites, the restorer of schism, the storehouse of lies, the sink of flattery, being struck by the horrible judgment of God, was seized with the palsy throughout his whole body, and that mouth which was to have spoken huge things against God and his saints, and holy Church...
Page 23 - Sophisters shulden know well," (says he) "that a cursed man doth fully the sacraments, though it be to his damning; for they ben not authours of these sacraments, but God kepeth that divinity to himself."— Lewis's History, p.
Page 20 - Article informs us that the Church is " a witness and a keeper of Holy Writ...
Page 9 - XXIII asking him to order the bones of the heretic, " a most wretched and pestilent person of damnable memory, a son of the old serpent, and a precursor and child of antichrist," ' to be dug up and cast upon a dirt heap or into the fire.

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