The great movement that Wycliffe inaugurated, which was to liberate the conscience and the intellect, and set free the nations so long bound to the triumphal car of Rome, had its spring in the Bible. Here was the source of that stream of blessing, which, like the water of life, has flowed down the agesContinue reading “The Great Controversy: John Wycliffe—Chapter 5, Part 4”
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The Great Controversy: John Wycliffe—Chapter 5, Part 3
The appearance of the Scriptures brought dismay to the authorities of the church. They had now to meet an agency more powerful than Wycliffe—an agency against which their weapons would avail little. There was at this time no law in England prohibiting the Bible, for it had never before been published in the language ofContinue reading “The Great Controversy: John Wycliffe—Chapter 5, Part 3”
The Great Controversy: John Wycliffe—Chapter 5, Part 1
Before the Reformation there were at times but very few copies of the Bible in existence, but God had not suffered His word to be wholly destroyed. Its truths were not to be forever hidden. He could as easily unchain the words of life as He could open prison doors and unbolt iron gates toContinue reading “The Great Controversy: John Wycliffe—Chapter 5, Part 1”