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Tracts and Treatises De Wycliffe, D.d
Selections and Translations his Manuscripts, and Latin Works
The TWpcliffe Society, WITH AN INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR,
REV. ROBERT VAUGHAN, D.D,
London: And Pardon, Hatton Garden. wpCÁÉXLv
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WHEN it devolved on the Committee of the Wyeliffe Society to decide on the subject of its first volume, they concluded that in effect that question was determined for them already by the illustrious name which the Society had adopted, and that they must commence the series with ‘ The Tracts and Treatises of John de Wycliffe.”
viii ADVERTISEMENT. the third part may be called bibliothecal, as it contains those tractates of the Reformer which have been already printed at different periods, and in various forms.
The first part therefore includes all that is known concerning the personal history of the Reformer, the result of a most laborious, extensive, and repeated examination of the extant writings of Wycliffe, and of all other materials which could be made available for the purpose.
Respecting the second part, Dr. Vaughan has thus written: “In the extracts presented in the first section of the first book, I have not retained every obsolete word, and in a few instances, an illegible or obscure sentence has been omitted; but those passages exhibit throughout, the substantial and idiomatic language of the Reformer, and cannot fail to make precisely that impression on the reader, which would be made by them if read from the original manuscript. It has not appeared to me necessary, or desirable, that I should affect greater accuracy in that portion of the work.
“The catalogue of the Reformers writings, in the next section, has been revised with much care, and will be found less imperfect than any one previously published. I speak of this catalogue as being only less imperfect than those which have preceded it, because no man acquainted with the subject can expect to see a perfect account of the writings of Wycliffe, distinguishing satisfaetorily between the extant and the non-extant, and between the works certainly written by the Reformer, and those attributed to him on probable evidence only. In this connexion, the obscure and uncertain may be diminished, but can never be wholly removed. In the hope of giving more completeness to this section, I have re-examined many of the Wyoliffe manuscripts within the last year,
It may be expedient to state in conclusion, that while the present volume is, in its typographical and general character, a fair specimen of those that will succeed it, yet in a literary point of view, it must to a great extent be regarded as introductory and unique.
Nearly five centuries have passed away since Wycliffe flou-
Book II.—WycLiPFE’s LATIN TREATISE, TRIALOGUS
Section I. Some Account of the First, Second, and Third Trialogus
[Section II.]
[Chapters Translated from the Fourth Book of the Trialogus Relating]
[To the Doctrines of the Sacraments, the Hierarchy, and the Religious]
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[III. Showing that the bread remains bread after consecration.. 188]
[IV. The preceding. statements confirmed by argument… 141]
[VI. In what way the bread is the body of our Lord, and not the identical body itself… 0. 0. 0. 0. 10M]
[VII. On the Identification of the bread with the body of Christ.. 150]
[VIII. Showing that the body of Christ doth not corrupt… 1562]
[IX. Whether two bodies may be at once in the same place.. 154]
[XIV. On the avarice of the clergy… 05. 5. e. 109]
[XXIII. How the Friars falsely sell their prayers and merits… 198]