. John de Wycliffe : a monograph, with some account of the Wycliffe mss. in Oxford, Cambridge, the British museum, Lambeth palace, and Trinity college, Dublin . e, to maintain Gods law, to recover the heritage * of the church, and to destroy the foul sins of clerks, saving their persons/ The notion that the suffrage ofprinces or of cardinals may raise an erring mortal to astate of infallibility, is treated as in every view this point the children of the fiend should better learn their logic and philosophy, lest they prove them- * selves heretical by a false interpretation of the law
. John de Wycliffe : a monograph, with some account of the Wycliffe mss. in Oxford, Cambridge, the British museum, Lambeth palace, and Trinity college, Dublin . e, to maintain Gods law, to recover the heritage * of the church, and to destroy the foul sins of clerks, saving their persons/ The notion that the suffrage ofprinces or of cardinals may raise an erring mortal to astate of infallibility, is treated as in every view this point the children of the fiend should better learn their logic and philosophy, lest they prove them- * selves heretical by a false interpretation of the law of * Christ/ Men ordained as priests are truly such but asthey partake of a Christian spirit. Without qualifica-tions of this spiritual nature, no form of episcopal ap-pointment can be of any value. The necessity of con-fession to a priest, moreover, is a fiction of priesthood;and among heresies there is no greater, than for a man to believe that he is absolved from sin, if he give money, or because a priest layeth his hand on the head, and saith, / absolve thee—for thou must be sorr^owful in thy * heaH, else God absolveth thee not So thorough were - V. rAiUci-vvorth Churcii m ISB-I. 1381.] Sermons preached at LutterwoHh. 375 the views of the Reformer subsequent to 1878 on thiscardinal topic.^ In another of his productions the Reformer writes, * Simon Magus never laboured more in the work of * simony, than do these priests. And so God would no * longer suffer the fiend to reign in only one such priest, * but for the sin which they had done, made division among two, that men 7ioiu, in Christs name, may the * more easily overcome them both/ Evil, like good, it is said,must be weakened by diffusion, and this now moveth^ priests to speak heartily in this matter, for when God * will bless the Church, but men are slothful, and will not labour, then sloth is to be rebuked for many rea- sons. ^ In his vocation as a parish priest, Wycliffe appears tohave acquitted himself with mo
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