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First in a series leading up to Reformation Day!

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A great debt is owed honest and brave men like Wycliff. As his experience shows, a champion of the Scriptures will find his fiercest enemies amongst those calling themselves Christian.

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The history of the Age of Wycliff demonstrates that England was not particularly cozy with the Pope even before the Tudors. The sad fact is that prior to Rowan Williams and Gene Robinson, the Church of England was getting along with the Pope better than it had in a thousand years.

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Wycliffe taught that Scripture contains everything that is necessary for our salvation. All other authorities must be tested by the Scripture. “Christ’s Law is best and enough, and other laws men should not take, but as branches of God’s Law.”

It seems to me that the truth of this was lost when Christianity merged with the state and became a political entity. America is exceptional in part because a state religion was never established.

Thanks for the thread, nice read.

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I'm a big fan of the Wycliffe Bible. The medieval lexicon makes you see things and understand things in a new way. I read it often; it's fascinating.

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Amazing:

In 1428, 44 years after Wycliffe’s death, by order of the Pope, the bones of Wycliffe were dug up and burned. As one historian commented: “They burned his bones to ashes and cast them into the Swift, a neighbouring brook running close by. Thus the brook conveyed his ashes to the Avon, the Avon into the Severn, the Severn into the narrow seas and they into the main ocean. And so the ashes of Wycliffe are symbolic of his doctrine, which is now spread throughout the world.”

Wycliffe was the father of the Reformation – its morning star.