. John de Wycliffe : a monograph, with some account of the Wycliffe mss. in Oxford, Cambridge, the British museum, Lambeth palace, and Trinity college, Dublin . children the goods of grace, and of a virtuouslife. Nor will they suffer them to retain such goods, asfreely proferred to them of God ; but hinder it, as muchas they may, saying, if a child yield himself to meeknessand poverty, and flee covetousness and pride, from adread of sin, and to please God, that he shall never be-come a man, never cost them a penny ; and they cursehim because he liveth well, and will teach other men thewill of
. John de Wycliffe : a monograph, with some account of the Wycliffe mss. in Oxford, Cambridge, the British museum, Lambeth palace, and Trinity college, Dublin . children the goods of grace, and of a virtuouslife. Nor will they suffer them to retain such goods, asfreely proferred to them of God ; but hinder it, as muchas they may, saying, if a child yield himself to meeknessand poverty, and flee covetousness and pride, from adread of sin, and to please God, that he shall never be-come a man, never cost them a penny ; and they cursehim because he liveth well, and will teach other men thewill of God, to save their souls. For they say, that by sodoing he getteth many enemies to his elders, that he slan-dereth all their noble kindred, who were ever held true menand worshipful ! ^ We may here venture to say, thatwe have read much in the manuscripts preserved fromthe pen of Wyclifie ; and that from the freedom withwhich he gives expression, almost perpetually, to per-sonal feeling, we have often felt the total absence of anyreference to his own family relationship, as suggesting that ^ MS. On Wedded Men and Wives. Corpus Christi College, oCO O 1824.] Wyclifie CJmrch. 11 his heretical course had exposed him to the kind of dis-ownment set forth in this extract. Highly probable is it,that in the view of his kinsman, he was a man who, byhis public teaching, though with the pretence of savingsouls, had brought dishonour on his noble kindred, who* were ever held true men and Avorshipful. We have said that little or nothing remains of theedifice in which Wycliffe was born : the same, however,may not be said of the font at which he was baptized,nor of the church in which he knelt as a youth in doubt Wycliife church is, in the main, olderthan the age of the Reformer. As in the case of manyvery ancient churches, you descend by steps to the pave-ment, the level of the soil on the outside being higherthan the ancient level of the floor within the walls
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