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The Life and Opinions of John de Wycliffe
The Life and Opinions of John de Wycliffe Author:Robert Vaughan Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Chap. tion. Opposed TRANSUBSTilNTIATION— — OPPOSED BY BERENGARIUS -- AND BY THE VAUD0iS AND ALBIGENSES - NOT RECOGNIZED BY THE ANGLO-SAX... more »ON CHUBCH - DEFENDED BY LANFRANC, AND ESPOUSED BY THE ANGLO-NORMAN CLERGY -- Wycliffe's Opposition To It - Severe Penalties Denounced on ALL WHO SHOULD FAVOR HIS OPINIONS CONCERNING IT -- HIS APPEAL TO THE CIVIL POWER FOR PROTECTION - HIS FEELING UNDER THESE PER- SECUTIONS - — ANALYSIS OF HIS " WICKET' - PROCEEDINGS OF COURT- NEY, AND THE SYNOD AT THE GREY FRIARS - WYCLiFFE FAVORED BY THE UNIVERSITY - STATE OF PARTIES IN THE NATION UNFRIENDLY TO THE EFFORTS OF THE REFORMERS - INQUISITORIAL STATUTE OBTAINED BY THE CLERGY - NOTICE OF ROBERT RIGGE, DB. HEREFORD, HEPPINGTON, ASH- TON, AND OTHERS. It has appeared, that until the middle of the ninth century, the manner in which the body and e blood of Christ are present in the eucharist, was the subject of debate, or rather of a peaceful difference of sentiment among persons holding the chief dignities of the hierarchy. The same may be said of a considerable interval afterwards. But from that period, and from causes which have also been explained/ the advocates of the mysterious dogma, which in the twelfth century, began to be designated transubstantiation, rapidly increased. Its progress, however, was far from being uninterrupted ; and among its opponents, the most distinguished place must be allotted to Berengarus, a gallic prelate, who about the middle of the eleventh century brought his genius Prelim. View, c. i. sect. 3. and learning, which were both greatly above the Chap. character of the age, to an investigation of its - claims. His doctrine was strictly that of the primitive church, and of the existing protestant communities. The zeal and ability with...« less