John‏ Wycliffe

Name: The last age of the church
Author: John‏ Wycliffe

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John‏ Wycliffe (1320-1384) published works such as The last age of the church. These writings evoke Goddis Chirche, Wyclyffe and derkenessis.

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John‏ Wycliffe, The last age of the church (1840)

“ They must feel that the Value of these Documents as Compositions, is but a secondary Object in their Publication; the great End must be the Discovery of Truth, and the Preservation of the Remains of an illustrious Character in our History. What nobler, what more imperishable Monument could the Gratitude of England raise to her first [xi] Reformer, than a complete and uniform Edition of his extant Writings?
The Editor is fully sensible that the Tract which is now for the first Time given to the public, is very far from being a favorable Specimen of the Works of Wyclyffe. ”

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John‏ Wycliffe, The last age of the church (1840)

“ This, at least, will make Sense; for, the Author’s Argument is, that if there were nothing of a Simoniacal Nature in the Reservation of Benefices, the small Benefices would be as often made the Subjects of the Papal Provisions and Reservations, as the “fatte” or more valuable Livings; but the contrary being the Case, it follows that the Income of the Benefice [xlix] is the real Object, and, therefore, that all these Exactions of the Court of Rome are Simoniacal in their Origin. ”

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John‏ Wycliffe, The last age of the church (1840)

“ Accordingly, Benaiah, Son of Jehoiada, was sent with a Chain on which the Name of God was inscribed, to bind Aschmedai, and bring him before Solomon. It took some Time to capture Aschmedai, and a long Account is given of the Difficulties of the Undertaking. At Length, on the third Day, he is brought to Solomon, who asks him for the Schamir. Aschmedai answers, It is not in my Keeping; but Sara-Dima (the Angel that presides over the Sea) has it, and he will entrust it only to the Wild-Hen (תרנגולא) , [c] from whom he exacts an Oath for its safe Return. ”

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John‏ Wycliffe, The last age of the church (1840)

“ The Parliament, viewing the Matter as Politicians, denounced the Papal Claims on the Grounds that large Sums of Money were annually sent out of England, and Aliens advanced to spiritual Livings in the Church; Wyclyffe taking up the Question as a Theologian, censures these Exactions as Simoniacal, and refers to them as symptomatic of the Approach of Antichrist. ”

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John‏ Wycliffe, The last age of the church (1840)

“ The Editor has not had Access to any of the Remains of Peter John’s Writings, but he is informed by a learned [liii] Friend, in whose Accuracy he has the fullest Confidence, that Peter John, in his Tractatus de Antichristo [56] , has fixed upon the Year 1356, as the Year of the Revelation, not the Destruction, of Antichrist, by adding 96, the supposed Date of the Apocalypse, to 1260. ”

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John‏ Wycliffe, The last age of the church (1840)

“ The same Story with the very same mystical Application of it which is made by our Author, is given by Peter Berchorius in his Reductorium morale, who quotes from Gervase of Tilbury. This latter Writer, as we learn from Berchorius, took the Story from Peter Comestor, and being an Englishman, was most probably the immediate Source from which the Author of the Tract before us derived it, especially as Gervase wrote upwards of a Century before Berchorius, who died in 1362. ”

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John‏ Wycliffe, The last age of the church (1840)

“ The Editor, however, leaves this Question to be decided by future Research, and by Judges more competent than himself. It is not impossible that the whole Passage [86] in which the Date of “thrittene hundrid yere and sixe and fifty” has been given, may prove to be a Quotation from the Book referred to under the Title of “Joachim in the Book of the Seedis of Profetis,” and if so, the Tract before us must of course be the Production of a later Period. ”

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John‏ Wycliffe, The last age of the church (1840)

“ Also for goodis of holy Chirche þat prelatis wiþ holdeþ to hem/ as pensiouns/ firste frutis/ fermes/ prouendris/ þe whiche may wel be clepid collibiste/ þes synnes and oþere suche ben marchaundise walkynge in derkenessis. Þe manere of tribulacioun schal be such as Joachim [33] seiþ in þe book of þe charge of profetis. Men of holy [xxxii] Chirche schal be seyd in a manere of careyne/ þei schal be cast out as dogge in myddis placis. ”

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John‏ Wycliffe, The last age of the church (1840)

“ And þis is as soþ as in þe bigynnynge God made heuene & erþe/ for þe oolde Testament is figur of þe newe. But aftir Joachim [24] & Bede [25] / fro þe bygynnynge of Latyn lettris to þe comynge of Crist weren seuene hundrid ȝeere/ so þat Crist cam in þe hondrid of .h’. lettre/ Crist steye to heuene/ and aftir þat/ undir .k’. lettre/ Crist delyuered his Chirche fro nyȝtly drede/ þe whiche was þe firste drede þat Goddis Chirche was inne. ”

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John‏ Wycliffe, The last age of the church (1840)

“ Men schal falle on hem/ & caste hem out of her fatte beneficis/ and þei schule seye/ he cam in to his benefice by his kynrede/ þes bi couenant maad bifore/ he for his seruyse/ & þes for moneye/ cam into Goddis Chirche. Þanne schal eche suche prest crye/ Alas/ Alas/ þat no good spiryt dwellid wiþ me at my comynge into Goddis Chirche. Þe wordis of Josue 2. co. þe þridde. I seide þat Crist entrede into hooly þingis/ þat is holy Chirche/ by holy lyuynge & holy techinge/ preynge þe Fadir for vs. ”

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John‏ Wycliffe, The last age of the church (1840)

“ Speaking of the 23rd Year of King Edward the Third, the Historian says [79] : “¶ And in the xxiij Yere of his Regne, in ye East Partyes of the Worlde, there began a Pestylence and Deth of Sarasyns and Paynyms, that so grete a Deth was never herde of afore, and that wasted away the People, so that unneth the tenth Persone was left alive. ”

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John‏ Wycliffe, The last age of the church (1840)

“ In æstate scilicet anno gratiæ M.CCC.XL., accidit quædam execrabilis et enormis infirmitas in Anglia quasi communis, et præcipue in comitatu Leicestriæ, adeo quod durante passione homines emiserunt vocem latrabilem ac si esset latratus canum; et fuit quasi intolerabilis pœna durante passione. ”

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John‏ Wycliffe, The last age of the church (1840)

“ And in these Dayes was Deth without Sorowe, Weddynges without Frendshyp, wylful Penaunce, and Derth without Scarsete, and Fleynge wtout Refute or Sucour, for many fledde from Place to Place bycause of the Pestylence, but they were infected, and might not escape ye Deth, after yt ye Prophete Isaie sayth, Who that fleeth fro the Face of Drede, he shall fall into the Dyche. ”

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John‏ Wycliffe, The last age of the church (1840)

“ But Joachur [17] / in his book of þe seedis of profetis & of þe seyingis of popes & of þe chargis of profetis/ tretynge þis matir/ & spekynge of þe rente of dymes/ seiþ þus [18] / foure tribulaciouns Dauiþ þe profete haþ bifore seid/ þe seuynty & nyne chapitre/ to entre into þe Chirche of God/ & Bernard [19] acordiþ þere wiþ/ vpon cantica/ þe þre & pritty sermon/ þat ben/ a nyȝtly drede/ an arwe fleynge in day/ chaffare walkynge in derkenessis/ & myddais deuylrie/ þat is to seye/ antecrist. ”

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John‏ Wycliffe, The last age of the church (1840)

“ Þat þis tribulacioun is nyȝe/ and whanne it schal come/ bi hem þat tretiþ þis matir is/ whanne men schulle wante teeþ/ and comynly alle children/ boren siþþen þe first pestylence/ ben such þat wanten eiȝte [xxxiii] grete teeþ. Herwiþ acordiþ Merlyn Ambrose [36] / þat such angusche is nyȝe/ for as by hem/ in þe tyme of þe myscheif of þe kok/ þat we clepe fraunce/ þat schal be distroyed by þe sixte of irlond/ þe witt is our kyng wiþ his children. Sibille [37] acordiþ herto/ þat suche tribulacioun is nyȝe/ in þes verse ”

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John‏ Wycliffe, The last age of the church (1840)

“ Þe secunde resoun is suche. Ȝit cam noȝt þat tribulacioun þat schal be in Goddis Chirche bi cause of chaffare walkynge in derkenesses/ & þat þat is prophesied schal come. Siþþe þanne þat we ben in .x. lettre/ as it is schewid/ þis tribulacioun schal come in .x. lettre oþere aftir/ but aftir .x. lettre/ þat is þe last of Latyn lettris/ schal be no tribulacioun in Goddis Chirche bote þe fourþe & þe [xxx] laste/ þe whiche schal be bi þe deuel of mydday/ þat is Antecrist [28] / þe whiche tribulacioun bi no Latyn lettre may be certefied/ as þes þre bifore. ”

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John‏ Wycliffe, The last age of the church (1840)

“ Sextus Hiberniæ mœnia subvertet, et nemora in planitiem mutabit: Diversas portiones in unum reducet, et capite leonis coronabitur. [87]
The following Collection of Prophecies relating to Sextus of Ireland, is from a MS. written about the Middle of the Fourteenth Century, and preserved in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin.
Iste sunt prophetie diuerse a diuersis prophetate de Sexto Hibernie [88] , qui vocatur Dominus [here there is an erasure in the MS.] Rex Anglie et Francie et Sextus Dominus Hibernie, de [lxxxiv] quo Prophetie sunt notate. Hermerus Dominus sapientum. ”

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John‏ Wycliffe, The last age of the church (1840)

“ Zacarie [40] writiþ/ [xxxvi] þe nynþe chapitre/ þou forsoþe wiþ blood of witnesse/ or þi testament/ hast ledde out hem þat were bounde in þe pyt. So whanne we weren synful/ & children of wraþþe/ Goddis sone cam out of heuene/ & preyying his fadir for his enemyes/ & he deyed for vs þanne/ myche raþere now we ben maad riȝtful bi his blood schule be saued. Poul writiþ to þe romayns. v. co. [41] He schal preye for vs. Ihūs wente into heuene to apere to þe semlant of God for vs. Poul to þe hebrees. [42] Þe whiche semlant he graunte vs to see/ þat lyueþ & regneþ wiþout eende/ Amen. ”

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John‏ Wycliffe, The last age of the church (1840)

“ Her wiþ acordiþ Carnosencis/ in a book þat he clepiþ pollicraticon [34] / þe seuenþe book/ þe tenþe chapitre/ & he aleyeþ Gregor seiynge þus/ pestilencis/ smyttingis to gidere of folkis/ & hurtlynge to gidere of rewmes/ & oþir harmes schal come to þe erþe/ for þat worschipis of holy Chirche beþ ȝeue to vnworþi men. ”

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John‏ Wycliffe, The last age of the church (1840)

“ Aftir þat/ vndir .m. lettir/ Crist delyuered his Chirche fro þe arwe fleynge in day/ þat was þe secunde tribulacioun of þe Chirche/ & þat was demynge by Joachim [26] & oþere þat vndir .m. lettre schewede þe multitude of heretikis contraryinge þe [xxviii] birþe of Crist his pascioun & his assencioun/ in þat þat .m. lettre most figured Crist. Euery lettre in þe abece may be sounded wiþ opyn mouþ saue .m. lettre one/ þe whiche may noȝt be souned but wiþ clos mouþ. So Crist myȝte noȝt come out of þe maydenes wombe/ but sche hadde be clos. And þes ben uerse of .m. lettre/ ”

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