Passages From the History of Liberty
Passages From the History of Liberty
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In place of a Church, to which its Clergy were a curse, and its People a shame, he would have built up a Church, whose Clergy and whose People should have been united in Christian works and Christian hopes. These Poor Priests were Wycliffe's chosen disciples and helpers.
" By this, preaching the Gospel," he said, " Christ conquered the World out of the Fiend's hand; " and by preaching the Gospel, Wycliffe, himself, believed that his reforms were to be most surely achieved. The Poor Priest's mis...sion was to live among the people in simplicity, gentleness and truth. All he had to do was to be done earnestly, but always gradually and peacefully. " Never- theless, we condemn not Curates who do well JOHN DE WYCLIFFE. 101 their office, and dwell where they shall most pro- fit, and teach truly and stably God's Law against false Prophets and the accursed deceptions of the Fiend." Yet such gentleness as this had but poor return. " If there be any simple man," says WyclirTe also, "who desireth to live well and to teach truly God's Law, he shall be held a Hypocrite, a New Teacher, a Heretic, and not suffered to come to any benefice." These Priests, be it remembered, never sought benefices, while WyclirTe was alive ; for it was his expressed de- sire that they should keep themselves free from temptations to corruption and indolence, such as seem to be the two peculiar characteristics of the English Clergy in his time.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
In place of a Church, to which its Clergy were a curse, and its People a shame, he would have built up a Church, whose Clergy and whose People should have been united in Christian works and Christian hopes. These Poor Priests were Wycliffe's chosen disciples and helpers.
" By this, preaching the Gospel," he said, " Christ conquered the World out of the Fiend's hand; " and by preaching the Gospel, Wycliffe, himself, believed that his reforms were to be most surely achieved. The Poor Priest's mis...sion was to live among the people in simplicity, gentleness and truth. All he had to do was to be done earnestly, but always gradually and peacefully. " Never- theless, we condemn not Curates who do well JOHN DE WYCLIFFE. 101 their office, and dwell where they shall most pro- fit, and teach truly and stably God's Law against false Prophets and the accursed deceptions of the Fiend." Yet such gentleness as this had but poor return. " If there be any simple man," says WyclirTe also, "who desireth to live well and to teach truly God's Law, he shall be held a Hypocrite, a New Teacher, a Heretic, and not suffered to come to any benefice." These Priests, be it remembered, never sought benefices, while WyclirTe was alive ; for it was his expressed de- sire that they should keep themselves free from temptations to corruption and indolence, such as seem to be the two peculiar characteristics of the English Clergy in his time.
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