[479] English Historical Review for 1904 (January), pp. 98 ff.
[480] This Act, entitled Act against Revilers, and for receiving in both Kinds, is printed in Gee and Hardy, Documents, etc. p. 322.
[481] Gee and Hardy, Documents, etc. p. 328.
[482] Ecclesiastical Memorials, etc. II. i. p. 133. It is printed in The Two Liturgies, with other Documents set forth by Authority in the Reign of King Edward the Sixth (Parker Society, Cambridge, 1844), p. 1.
[483] The book is printed in The Two Liturgies, etc., of the Parker Society, pp. 9 ff.
[484] Gee and Hardy, Documents, etc. pp. 358 ff.
[485] Mr. Pollard (Cambridge Modern History, ii. pp. 478, 479) thinks that the influence of these foreign divines on the English Reformation has been overrated; and he is probably correct so far as changes in worship and usages go. His idea is that the English Reformers followed the lead of Wiclif, consciously or unconsciously, rather than that of continental divines; but if the root-thought in all Reformation theology be considered, it may be doubted whether Wiclif could supply what the English divines had in common with their continental contemporaries. “Wiclif, with all his desire for Reformation, was essentially a mediæval thinker.” The theological question which separated every mediæval Reformer from the thinkers of the Reformation was, How the benefits won by the atoning work of Christ were to be appropriated by men? The universal mediæval answer was, By an imitation of Christ; while the universal Reformation answer was, By trust in the promises of God (for that is what is meant by Justification by Faith). In their answer to this test question, the English divines are at one with the Reformers on the Continent, and not with Wiclif.
[486] Pollard, England under Protector Somerset (London, 1900).
[487] “Tulchan is a calf skin stuffed with straw to cause the cow to give milk. The Bishop served to cause the bishoprick to yeeld commoditie to my lord who procured it to him.” Scott’s Apologetical Narration of the State and Government of the Kirk of Scotland since the Reformation (Woodrow Society, Edinburgh, 1846), p. 25.
[488] The book is printed in The Two Liturgies, with other Documents, etc. (Parker Society), p. 187.