John Knox and the Church of

England:

HIS WORK IN her Pulpit, AND HIS INFLUENCE UPON
HER LITURGY, ARTICLES, AND PARTIES.

A Monograph founded upon several important Papers of
Knox never before published.

BY PETER LORIMER, D. D.

Demy 8vo, Cloth, price 128.

"The author seems unquestionably to have added some very important details to the history of the English Prayer-Book, and the facts now for the first time made known to us ought to have an interest for many besides theologians."— Academy.

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JOHN WICLIF

AND HIS

ENGLISH PRECURSORS

BY

PROFESSOR LECHLER, D.D.

OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LEIPSIC

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN

WITH ADDITIONAL NOTES

BY

PETER LORIMER, D.D.

AUTHOR OF " JOHN KNOX AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND'
CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF SCOTTISH ANTIQUARIES, AND
HONORARY MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BERG
IN THE PRUSSIAN STATES

VOL. II.

C LONDON

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1878

Par 1505,56.5

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WICLIF! strong soul nursed as in eagles' nest
In upper air, it needed breath of Alps,
The keen invigorative air which girds

The Maiden, Monk, and Eiger with their zones
Of thick-ribbed ice, to give me strength to cope
With the new history of thy mighty thoughts,
And deeds and giant strife with Papal Rome-
From fountains fresh deduced, in Teuton speech
Of Lechler's learned page, and to give back
Thy thoughts, full rendered, to thine own dear land.
Sire of our English tongue! Translator once
Thyself of God's own Word.-Immortal work!
A well of truth and English undefiled!
Accept, Great Shade! my toil, humble itself,
Yet noble made by thee-to whom 'twas given
In love and laud, unbought, spontaneous.

LAUTERBRUNNEN, HOTEL STAUBBACH,

22nd August 1876.

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

CHAPTER VIII.

WICLIF AS A THINKER AND WRITER; HIS PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL

SYSTEM.

PAGE

SECTION I.-Wiclif's gradual development as a Thinker and Reformer,

1-4

SECTION II.-Wiclif as a Philosophical Thinker and Writer,

NOTES TO SECTIONS I. and II.

4-12

12-14

SECTION III.-Wiclif's Theological System. The sources of Christian

truth,

14-36

NOTES TO SECTION III.,

36-40

SECTION IV.-Doctrine of God and the Divine Trinity,

41-46

NOTES TO SECTION IV.,

46, 47

SECTION V.-Doctrine of the World; of the Creation; of the Divine

SECTION VII. - Doctrine of the Person of Christ, and the Work of Re-

demption,

67-76

SECTION VIII.- Doctrine of the Order of Personal Salvation,

76-90

NOTES TO SECTIONS VII. and VIII. .

90-97

'XSECTION IX.-Doctrine of the Church as the Communion of the Saved, . 97-107