Wiclif’s Place in History: Three Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford in 1881

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This volume is republished for the benefit of those interested in the history of the Bible and Christian church. John de Wiclif was the first translator of the Bible into English and the first reformer, who was called the Morning Star of the Reformation. He was so despised by the Catholic church that his bones were dug up, burned, and the ashes thrown into the River Swift in Lutterworth, England. Great numbers of Wiclif’s writings were destroyed by those in power during and after his life, so this information is valuable. In this volume you will find treasures about how not a single work of Wiclif’s was committed to print till 1525, over 141 years after his death, and how even his first book was printed in Germany, not England.