FOURTEENTH CENTURY

NEW LIFE BEGAN TO BURST FORTH

• Restored:
• 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.

• 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.