Tracts and Treatises of John de Wycliffe
A translation of some of Wyclif’s shorter Latin works, his Treatise Trialogus, his Treatise against Orders of Friars, and other shorter works.
Tracts and Treatises of John de Wycliffe, D.D. with Selections and Translations from his Manuscripts , and Latin Works. Edited for The Wycliffe Society, with an Introductory Memoir, by the Rev. Robert Vaughan, D.D. (London: Blackburn and Pardon, 1845).
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Table of Contents
- ADVERTISEMENT.
- CONTENTS.
- Part I.: FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING THE LIFE OF WYCLIFFE.
- Part II.: ON THE WRITINGS OF WYCLIFFE STILL IN MANUSCRIPT.
- BOOK I.: ON THE WRITINGS OF WYCLIFFE STILL IN MANUSCRIPT.
- SECTION I.
- SECTION II.: ON THE REMAINING WRITINGS OF WYCLIFFE STILL IN MANUSCRIPT, AND INCLUDING SUCH WORKS AS ARE KNOWN ONLY BY THEIR TITLES.
- BOOK II.
- SECTION I.: BEING SOME ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD BOOKS OF THE TRIALOGUS.
- BOOK I.
- BOOK II.
- BOOK III.
- SECTION II.: CHAPTERS TRANSLATED FROM THE FOURTH BOOK OF THE TRIALOGUS RELATING TO THE DOCTRINE OF THE SACRAMENTS, THE HIERARCHY, AND THE RELIGIOUS ORDERS.
- I.: ON THE EUCHARIST.
- II.: WHAT IS DENOTED BY THE PRONOUN “THIS” IN THE WORDS OF CONSECRATION.
- III.: SHOWING THAT THE BREAD REMAINS BREAD AFTER CONSECRATION.
- IV.: THE PRECEDING STATEMENTS CONFIRMED BY ARGUMENT.
- V.: HOW AND FROM WHAT CAUSE THE HERESY CONCERNING THE SACRAMENT OF THE EUCHARIST HATH GROWN UP.
- VI.: IN WHAT WAY THE BREAD IS THE BODY OF OUR LORD, AND NOT THE IDENTICAL BODY ITSELF.
- VII.: ON THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE BREAD WITH THE BODY OF CHRIST.
- VIII.: SHOWING THAT THE BODY OF CHRIST DOTH NOT CORRUPT.
- IX.: WHETHER TWO BODIES MAY BE AT ONCE IN THE SAME PLACE.
- X.: ON BAPTISM.
- XI.: ON THE THREEFOLD BAPTISM.
- XII.: ON CONFIRMATION.
- XIII.: ON THE SACRAMENT OF ORDERS.
- XIV.: ON THE AVARICE OF THE CLERGY.
- XV.: ON THE CULPABILITY OF THE LAITY IN RESPECT TO ENDOWMENTS.
- XVI.: ON PENANCE.
- XVII.: ON THE SIGNS OF CONTRITION.
- XVIII.: OF EXTREME UNCTION.
- XIX.: OF THE VARIOUS KINDS OF MINISTERS.
- XX.: ON THE BEGGING FRIARS.
- XXI.: FURTHER SHOWING THAT THE MENDICANCY OF THE FRIARS IS NOT CONSISTENT WITH SCRIPTURE.
- XXII.: ON THE LETTERS OF THE FRATERNITIES.
- XXIII.: HOW THE FRIARS FALSELY SELL THEIR PRAYERS AND MERITS.
- XXIV.: ON INDULGENCES.
- XXV.: HOW THE ORDERS OF FRIARS WERE INTRODUCED.
- XXVI.: IN WHAT RESPECT THE FRIARS ARE CONTRARY TO CHRIST.
- XXVII.: OF THE OTHER SIX ABUSES OF THE FRIARS.
- XXVIII.: SHOWING HOW THE FRIARS SEDUCE THE KINGDOMS THEY INHABIT.
- XXIX.: OF THE FRAUD AND MALICE OF THE FRIARS
- XXX.: WHETHER TEMPORAL LORDS MAY AND SHOULD ASSIST AND DEFEND THEIR PEOPLE AGAINST THE FRIARS.
- Part III.: A TREATISE OF JOHN WYCLIFFE AGAINST THE ORDERS OF FRIARS.
- AGAINST THE ORDERS OF FRIARS.
- CHAPTER I.: FRIARS’ ORDERS PERFECTER THAN CHRIST’S.
- CHAPTER II.: FRIARS HINDER THE FREE PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL.
- CHAPTER III.: A MAN ONCE PROFESSED TO THEIR RELIGION MAY NEVER LEAVE IT.
- CHAPTER IV.: NO PREACHING WITHOUT LICENCE OF THEIR SOVEREIGN, HOW BAD SOEVER.
- CHAPTER V.: THE LAWFULNESS OF BEGGING MAINTAINED BY FRIARS.
- CHAPTER VI.: FRIARS DRAW ALL ALMS FROM POOR AND NEEDY MEN, TO MAINTENANCE OF THEIR SINFUL AND SUPERFLUOUS ORDER.
- CHAPTER VII.: TRADITIONS OF FRIARS PREFERRED BEFORE CHRIST’S COMMANDMENTS.
- CHAPTER VIII.: FRIARS GREAT HYPOCRITES, AS POOR AS CHRIST IN SHOW, AS SUMPTUOUS AS LORDS AND PRELATES IN DEED.
- CHAPTER IX.: THEIR STEALING OF CHILDREN AND ENTICING OF THEM TO THEIR ORDER.
- CHAPTER X.: CURATES DEFRAUDED OF THEIR DUTIES BY MEANS OF FRIARS.
- CHAPTER XI.: FRIARS COME IN UNDER THE NAME OF SAINTS, AND FORSAKE THE RULE.
- CHAPTER XII.: PERSECUTION OF TRUE PRIESTS BY FALSE FRIARS.
- CHAPTER XIII.: CAPPED FRIARS SERVED AS LORDS OR KINGS AT TABLE.
- CHAPTER XIV.: GREAT FLATTERERS OF THE PEOPLE, NEITHER REPROVING NOR REMOVING THEIR SINS FROM AMONG THEM.
- CHAPTER XV.: HOW MUCH AND HOW OFT THEY DECEIVE AND COZEN THE LAY PEOPLE BY THEIR LETTERS OF FRATERNITY.
- CHAPTER XVI.: FRIARS PERVERT THE RIGHT FAITH OF THE SACRAMENT OF THE ALTAR, BY MAKING IT TO BE AN ACCIDENT WITHOUT SUBJECT.
- CHAPTER XVII.: THEIR EXCESS IN BUILDING OF GREAT CHURCHES AND COSTLY HOUSES AND CLOISTERS.
- CHAPTER XVIII.: FRIARS TEACHING THE VOW OF OBEDIENCE CONTRARY TO GOD’S LAW.
- CHAPTER XIX.: HOW THEY FORSAKE THE PERFECTION OF THEIR ORDER FOR WORLDLY RESPECTS.
- CHAPTER XX.: THEIR ROTTEN HABIT ESTEEMED ABOVE CHRIST’S BODY.
- CHAPTER XXI.: FRIARS BEG WITHOUT NEED, WHEN THE POOR WANT, WITHOUT REMORSE.
- CHAPTER XXII.: FRIARS REPROVE NOT THEIR BRETHREN AS THE GOSPEL WILLETH, BUT AS THEMSELVES WILL.
- CHAPTER XXIII.: FRIARS LAWLESS BEGGING THE KING AND THE MIGHTY ONES OF THE LAND TO MAINTAIN THEIR SECT, BEGGING THEIR ALMS, AND BEGGARING THE WHOLE LAND.
- CHAPTER XXIV.: FRIARS NO PEACE-MAKERS, BUT MAKE-BATES, STRIVERS THEMSELVES, AND STIRRERS UP OF OTHERS TO WARS AND DISSENSIONS.
- CHAPTER XXV.: JUDAS’S CHILDREN SELLING CHRIST, AND ALL FOR MONEY.
- CHAPTER XXVI.: THEY SLANDER TRUE PRIESTS, AND FLATTER WICKED MEN.
- CHAPTER XXVII.: FRIARS MOST IMPATIENT OF ALL MEN LIVING IN BEARING REPROOF.
- CHAPTER XXVIII.: THE HOLY SCRIPTURES ACCUSED BY THESE UNHOLY MEN OF FALSEHOOD.
- CHAPTER XXIX.: HOW STRONGLY WEDDED TO THEIR ROTTEN HABIT.
- CHAPTER XXX.: THE POPE’S DISPENSATION, OR COMMANDMENT OF THE SUPERIOR, MORE REGARDED THAN CHRIST’S COMMANDMENT.
- CHAPTER XXXI.: THEIR USURY, SIMONY, COVETOUSNESS, EXTORTION, RAPINE, AND THEFT.
- CHAPTER XXXII.: FRIARS CANNOT ENDURE TO HEAR OF CHRIST’S POVERTY PREACHED.
- CHAPTER XXXIII.: FRIARS LIKE THIEVES COMING INTO THE CHURCH BY THE WINDOW, NOT BY THE DOOR.
- CHAPTER XXXIV.: BIND THEIR NOVICES TO IMPOSSIBLE THINGS.
- CHAPTER XXXV.: THE NECESSITY AND MULTITUDE OF THEIR VAIN AND CHANGEABLE CEREMONIES.
- CHAPTER XXXVI.: FRIARS RETURN EVIL FOR GOOD.
- CHAPTER XXXVII.: FRIARS, UNDER THE HABIT OF HOLINESS, LEAD MEN INTO SIN.
- CHAPTER XXXVIII.: THEY PERSUADE MEN TO RECKON MORE OF THEIR ANATHEMAS, THAN OF GOD’S CURSE.
- CHAPTER XXXIX.: FRIARS’ HERESY IN AFFIRMING THE WICKED TO BE MEMBERS OF CHRIST’S CHURCH.
- CHAPTER XL.: ARROGATING UNTO THEMSELVES GLORY DUE UNTO OTHER MEN, AND SOMETIMES UNTO GOD HIMSELF.
- CHAPTER XLI.: EXALTING THEMSELVES ABOVE CHRIST HIMSELF.
- CHAPTER XLII.: CHRIST’S RULE NO SUFFICIENT WARRANT FOR THEM TO BE RULED BY.
- CHAPTER XLIII.: FRIARS’ POLICY IN BINDING THEIR NOVICES TO UNKNOWN THINGS.
- CHAPTER XLIV.: MISSPENDERS OF THE TREASURE OF THIS LAND.
- CHAPTER XLV.: FRIARS HOLIER THAN OTHER MEN.
- CHAPTER XLVI.: FRIARS ALTOGETHER SET UPON COVETOUSNESS.
- CHAPTER XLVII.: FRIARS DEAD UNTO THE WORLD, BUT RAISED BY ANTICHRIST TO PRIDE, COVETOUSNESS, AND MAINTENANCE OF SIN.
- CHAPTER XLVIII.: SPIRITUAL IMPURITY OF FRIARS.
- CHAPTER XLIX.: FRIARS NOTABLE FACTORS FOR THE POPE HEREIN IN ENGLAND.
- CHAPTER L.: FRIARS MOST PERILOUS ENEMIES TO HOLY CHURCH AND TO ALL OUR LAND.
- A COMPLAINT OF JOHN WYCLIFFE, EXHIBITED TO THE KING AND PARLIAMENT.
- THE FIRST ARTICLE.
- THE SECOND ARTICLE.
- THE THIRD ARTICLE.
- THE FOURTH ARTICLE.
- WYCKLIFFE’S WYCKETT, WHICH HE MADE IN KING RICHARD’S DAYS THE SECOND.
- A VERY BRIEF DEFINITION OF THESE WORDS: HOC EST CORPUS MEUM.
- WHY POOR PRIESTS HAVE NO BENEFICES.
- CHAPTER THE FIRST.
- CHAPTER THE SECOND.
- CHAPTER THE THIRD.
- ANSWER OF WYCLIFFE TO RICHARD THE SECOND, AS TOUCHING THE RIGHT AND TITLE OF THE KING AND THE POPE.a
- LETTER OF WYCLIFFE IN EXCUSE TO POPE URBAN VI.a
- CONFESSION OF WYCLIFFE CONCERNING THE EUCHARIST.
- CONFESSION ON THE EUCHARIST, DELIVERED TO THE DELEGATES AT OXFORD, IN 1382.a
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