. The history of Romanism : from the earliest corruptions of Christianity to the present time; with full chronological table, analytical and alphabetical indexes and glossary; illustrated by numerous accurate and highly finished engravings of its ceremonies, superstitions, persections, and historical incidents . Wickljffe rebuking the Mendicant The dead body of a Pope lying in State. chap, n.] POPERY ON A TOTTERING THRONE—A. D. 1303-1545. 383 A popish priests lament that the Bible should be made common to the laity and to women. relative to this first translation of the Scriptures int
. The history of Romanism : from the earliest corruptions of Christianity to the present time; with full chronological table, analytical and alphabetical indexes and glossary; illustrated by numerous accurate and highly finished engravings of its ceremonies, superstitions, persections, and historical incidents . Wickljffe rebuking the Mendicant The dead body of a Pope lying in State. chap, n.] POPERY ON A TOTTERING THRONE—A. D. 1303-1545. 383 A popish priests lament that the Bible should be made common to the laity and to women. relative to this first translation of the Scriptures into the Englishlanguage, are well illustrated by a passage from the historical workof a popish contemporary of Wickliff, Knighton, a canon of Lei-cester. Christ delivered his gospel, says he, to the clergy anddoctors of the church, that they might administer to the laity and toweaker persons, according to the state of the times, and the wantsof man. But this master John Wickliff translated it out of Latininto English, and thus laid it more open to the laity, and to womenwho can read, than it formerly had been to the mo*st learned of theclergy, even to those of them who had the best in this way the gospel pearl is cast abroad, and trodden underfoot of swine, and that which was before precious both to clergyand laity, is rendered
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