[418] Cp. Prof. Montagu Burrows, Wiclif’s Place in History, 1884, p. 49. Maitland (Eight Essays, 1852) suggested derivation from the movement of Abbot Joachim and others of that period. [↑]
[419] Wilkins’ Concilia, ii, 124. [↑]
[420] Cp. Vaughan, as cited by Hardwick, Church History: Middle Age, p. 402. [↑]
[421] Hardwick, pp. 417, 418. The doctrine of purgatory was, however, soon renounced by the Lollards (id. p. 420). [↑]
[422] See the passages cited in Lewis’s Life of Wiclif, ed. 1820, pp. 224–25. Cp. Burrows, as cited, p. 19; Le Bas, Life of Wiclif, 1832, pp. 357–59. [↑]
[423] Lechler, Wycliffe and his Eng. Precursors, pp. 371–76; Hardwick, p. 412. [↑]
[424] Cp. Green, Short History, ch. v, § 4. [↑]
[425] Lechler, p. 236. It forms bk. vi of Wiclif’s theological Summa. [↑]
[426] Baxter, in his address “To the doubting and unbelieving readers” prefixed to his Reasons of the Christian Religion, 1667, names Savonarola, Campanella, Ficinus, Vives, Mornay, Grotius, Cameron, and Micraelius as defenders of the faith, but no writer of the fourteenth century. [↑]
[427] Cp. Le Bas, pp. 342–43; and Hardwick, Church Hist.: Middle Age, p. 415. [↑]