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FOURTEENTH CENTURY
NEW LIFE BEGAN TO BURST FORTH
God alone is able to save men from their sins by His sovereign grace. A light began to dawn across Europe.
Scripture first above all human teaching.
Bible translated into the language of the common people.
Corrected:
Loosening the grip of the worldly government/church system. Errors and abuses of that system were pointed out. |
- 1328 John Wycliffe born.
- 1348 AD, Black Death plague sweeps Europe and England.
- Bradwardine begins teaching that God alone is able to save men from their sins by His sovereign grace.
- Wycliffe is taught by Badwardine and Grosetete.
- 1349 Persecution of Jews in Germany
- Wycliffe advised King Richard II regarding the Pope, but was spared death.
- 1365 AD, Wycliffe was instrumental in King Edward and the Parliament rejecting the Pope?s demand for money.
- 1377 Courtenay summons Wycliffe for a trial at St. Paul's.
- 1378 AD, Wycliffe made the errors of the Catholic Church very clear and was put on trial, but God protected him.
- Two Popes, one in Avignon, France and one in Rome, came into being. Each excommunicated the other.
- Wycliffe translates the Bible into the language of the common people and sends out the Lollards as itinerant preachers. They would preach in any place where people would listen.
- 1382 AD, John Wycliffe declared the errors of transubstantiation and was expelled from Oxford
- 1384 AD, John Wycliffe died of a stroke.
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- The Bible alone is authoritative and is fully sufficient for the government of this world.
- When the two Popes, one in France and one in Rome, each excommunicated the other, Wycliffe declared the entire Papal system to be anti-Christ, and the Pope to be the man of sin who exalts himself above God.
- In one of his duties, Wycliffe learned more about the motives of the Pope and began calling Pope Urban, anti-Christ.
- Many of the religious people rejected this restoration of the revelation of God, giving religious reasons for doing so.
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