Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Commemoration of John Wycliffe, Reformer, 1384
The Holy Ghost descended upon the heathen, as he did upon the apostles in Jerusalem; and Christ were so merciful to send the Holy Ghost to the heathen men, and he made them partakers of his blessed word; why should it then be taken from us [by Church rules forbidding English Bibles] in this land that be Christian men? Consider you whether it is not all one to deny Christ’s words for heresy, and Christ for an heretic? for if my word be a lie, then I am a liar that speaketh the word; therefore if my words be heresy, then am I a heretic that speaketh the word; therefore it is all one to condemn the word of God in any language for heresy, and God for an heretic that spake the word; for he and his word is all one, and they may not be separated... How may any antichrist for dread of God take it away from us that be Christian men, and thus suffer the people to die for hunger in heresy and blasphemy of man’s law that corrupteth and slayeth the soul?
... John Wycliffe (1320?-1384), Wyckett, in Tracts and Treatises of John de Wycliffe, Robert Vaughan, ed., London: Blackburn and Pardon, 1845, p. 275-276 
(see the book; see also Jer. 8:8; Ps. 19:9; Matt. 15:1-6; Luke 8:21; 11:28; John 5:39-40; Acts 2:4; 10:45; Rom. 3:1-2; 10:17; 2 Tim. 3:16-17; Heb. 4:12; 2 Pet. 1:19-21; 1 John 2:27; more at Christ, Condemnation, God, Heresy, Holy Spirit, Scripture, Suffer)
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