John wycliffe brief biography of prophets
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Reformation Biographies
As part of Wycliffe College's commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Wycliffe College faculty and faculty from the Toronto School of Theology tell the stories of key personalities of this momentous movement in history. New biographies are added throughout the Fall of 2017.
John Smyth (1570-1612) - The Rev. Dr. Peter Holmes
This biography is written by the Rev. Dr. Peter Holmes (Wycliffe '86), Pastor at York minster Park Baptist Church. It also appears as the editorial of the November 27, 2017 edition of Wycliffe College's Morning Star newsletter.
John Smyth, (1570-1612). By the time John Smyth, who is widely regarded as the founder of the Baptist Church, was born, Luther, Zwingli and Calvin were all dead and John Knox was approaching the end of his life. John Smyth sensed a call to ministry and studied at Cambridge after which he was ordained into the Anglican priesthood in 1594. Smyth served in both Cambridge a
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Wycliffe's Work for England
L. Laurenson
Contents
1 The Most Interesting Book in the World
2 Rome: Mediaeval and Modern
3 Conversion and Conflict
4 Wycliffe and the National Opposition
5 Wycliffe and the Bishops
6 The "Poor Priests".
7 More about the "Poor Priests"
8 Rome attempts to extinguish the light
9 The Wonder of the Book
10 The Oldest Book in the World
11 The Early Christian Centuries
12 The Rise of the Papacy
13 Christianity in Early Britain
14 The First English Bible
Chapter 1
The Most Interesting Book in the World
What is the most interesting book in all the world? Perhaps different people would give different answers to this question. Boys might think of books describing the lives and actions of great dock in history: the battles they fought, the brave deeds they did, and the wonderful things they accomplished. And girls might think of the life-story of some noble woman, less prominent on the world's scen but equally brave, and perhaps more useful
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A thorough-going Reformer
John Wycliffe is rightly called the Morning Star of the Reformation. In God’s Providence, he was the man who inherited the apostolic gospel of salvation in Christ as described in the doctrines of grace. He was elected by God to build on the work of Englishmen such as Greathead and Bradwardine and pass it on to Continental men of God such as John Hus, Jerome of Prague and Martin Luther. Besides this, he laid the exegetical and spiritual foundation for the British Reformation. Indeed, one can say that, in God’s good plan for the sixteenth century Reformation of the Church, all roads lead to the life and works of John Wycliffe. As Wycliffe was more thorough-going than many of his reforming successors, it will benefit all Christians to familiarise themselves with Wycliffe’s testimony and teaching.
Christ’s words concerning a prophet not being honoured in his own country, are very true of the British attitude to their Refo