[187] A Complaint of John Wycleff. Tracts and Treaties edited by the Wickliffe Society, p. 268.
[188] Finaliter veritas vincet eos. Vaughan, Appendix, ii. p. 453.
[189] This is the reading of the Bodleian manuscript—"and be [by] this it passes all other laws." In Fox, Wickliffe appears to ascribe to Christ himself this superiority over all Scripture,—a distinction hardly in the mind of the reformer or of his age.
[190] An Epistle of J. Wickliffe to Pope Urban VI. Fox, Acts, i. p. 507, fol. Lond. 1684; also Lewis, Wickliffe, p. 333, Append.
[191] Ideo si essent centum papæ, et omnes fratres essent versi in cardinales, non deberet concedi sententiæ suæ in materia fidei, nisi de quanto se fundaverint in Scriptura. Trialogus, lib. iv. cap. vii.
[192] Vaughan's Life of Wickliffe, ii, p. 215, 257.
[193] De universalibus realibus.
[194] Auctoritas Scripturæ sacræ, quæ est lex Christi, infinitum excedit quam libet scripturam aliam. Dialog. [Trialogus] lib. iii. cap. xxx; see in particular chap. xxxi. The authority of Holy Scripture, which is the law of Christ, infinitely surpasses all other writings whatever.
[195] Ibid. de prædestinatione, de peccato, de gratia, etc.
[196] Dialog. [Trialogus] lib. iii, cap. xxx.