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THREE TREATISES BY JOHN WYCKLYFFE, D.D.
I. OF THE CHURCH AND HER MEMBERS.
II. OF THE APOSTACY OF THE CHURCH.
III. OF ANTICHRIST AND HIS MEYNEE.
Now first printed from a Manuscript in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, with Notes and a Glossary. By JAMES HENTHORN TODD, D.D., Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Professor of Hebrew in the University, and Treasurer of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
EXTRACTS FROM THE PROSPECTUS.
"The Tracts here collected are now, for the first time, printed. They are interesting as being, perhaps, the latest of Wycklyffe's writings, and as expressing, it may be presumed, his matured opinions and judgement, on the important subjects of which they treat. One of them, the Treatise On the Church and its Members, contains internal evidence of having been composed within the last year of the Reformer's life: the others, from their close connexion with this, in style and subject-matter, were probably written at the same time."
"It is scarcely necessary to say that the Editor, in printing these curious tracts, has no wish to recommend all the doctrines they advocate. His object is to make them known as documents essential to the right understanding of the attempt made by Wycklyffe and his followers for the reformation of the Church. They are interesting also as monuments of the state of the English language in the fourteenth century, and they throw great light on the manners, customs, and religion of our ancestors at that period.
"Some Notes have been added explanatory of obscure allusions, and with verifications of the quotations from ancient writers, occurring in the Text. A copious Glossary has also been compiled, to assist the reader in understanding the obsolete words and spellings of the original.