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This Bible is for the Government of the People, by the People, and for the People.

John Wycliffe

Already a third and more of England is in the hands of the Pope. There cannot be two temporal sovereigns in one country; either Edward is King or Urban is king. We make our choice. We accept Edward of England and refute Urban of Rome.

John Wycliffe

I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.

John Wycliffe

Crown and cloth maken no priest, nor emperor's bishop with his words, but power that crist giveth; and thus by life have been priests known.

John Wycliffe

Visit those who are sick, or who are in trouble, especially those whom God has made needy by age, or by other sickness, as the feeble, the blind, and the lame who are in poverty. These you shall relieve with your goods after your power and after their need, for thus biddeth the Gospel.

John Wycliffe

I shall not die, but live; and again declare the evil deeds of the friars.

John Wycliffe

There was good reason for the silence of the Holy Spirit as to how, when, in what form Christ ordained the apostles, the reason being to show the indifferency of all forms of words.

John Wycliffe

I acknowledge that the sacrament of the altar is very God's body in form of bread, but it is in another manner God's body than it is in heaven.

John Wycliffe

John Wycliffe

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Born: 1330

Died: December 31, 1384 (aged 54)

Bio: John Wycliffe was an English scholastic philosopher, theologian, Biblical translator, reformer, seminary professor at Oxford. He was an influential dissident within the Roman Catholic priesthood during the 14th century.

Known for:

The last age of the Church
On the Truth of Holy Scripture
On simony
John Wiclif's Polemical works in Latin

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