. Paganism, popery, and Christianity : or, The blessing of an open Bible, as shown in the history of Christianity, from the time of our Saviour to the present day. JOHN WICKLIFFE,. THE ENGLISH REFORMER. ^;,^:^OHN WICKLIFFE was born about theyear 1324, near Rich-mond, in seems first to have distin-guished himself, during his resi-dence at the university of Ox-ford, by a controversy with themendicant friars, who claimedthe right of appointment to allacademical offices. In the year1365 he published a defence of the kings refusal topay the tribute commonly called Peters pence,a servic
. Paganism, popery, and Christianity : or, The blessing of an open Bible, as shown in the history of Christianity, from the time of our Saviour to the present day. JOHN WICKLIFFE,. THE ENGLISH REFORMER. ^;,^:^OHN WICKLIFFE was born about theyear 1324, near Rich-mond, in seems first to have distin-guished himself, during his resi-dence at the university of Ox-ford, by a controversy with themendicant friars, who claimedthe right of appointment to allacademical offices. In the year1365 he published a defence of the kings refusal topay the tribute commonly called Peters pence,a service which obtained for him the friendship andprotection of the famous John of Gaunt, to whoseinfluence he was more than once indebted for escapefrom the machinations of his enemies. On his returnfrom Bruges, whither he had been sent by the king in1374, to discuss the question of tribute with the popeslegate, he published his Trialogue, in which theabuses of the papacy are powerfully attacked. Hisviews respecting the divine presence in the eucharistseem not to have been very different from those ofLuther. He held also that deadly sin in a bishop orpiiest absolved the people fr
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