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1400 / History of the Faith, from Martyrs Mirror, in the 15th Century. p334
A. D. 1401.-A certain celebrated writer relates, from John Fox's English History of the Persecutions, that then, in the month of January, King Henry IV held a parliament at London, in which a decree or bloody edict was issued. against the Wickliffites, of whose belief against infant baptism and oaths we have already written, in speaking of their leader John Wickliffe; and who at that time, after the English custom, were called Lollards. This decree or edict was called: Statutum ex Oficio, or Edict of King Henry IV against the disciples of Wickliffe, in England. (See 2d book of the History of the Persecutions, fol. 514, and fol. 515, from John Fox's Angl., fol. 481.)
Continuing, said author relates, from Fox, some articles drawn up by the inquisition, with or besides the above-mentioned edict; containing the principal tenets of the Wickliffites, which the inquisition placed before them for renunciation, or abjuration. They read as follows
1."That the mass or the worship which is performed before the holy cross, and is ordained by the whole church, is idolatry.
2."That all who worship before the cross, commit idolatry, and are to be regarded as idolaters.
3."That the real flesh and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ are not in the sacrament of the altar after the priest has pronounced the words of consecration over them.
4."That the sacrament of the altar is sacramental bread, without life, and only instituted in remembrance of the suffering of Christ.
5."That the body of Christ, so-called, which is taken from the altar, is a figure of Christ's body, as long as we see the bread and the wine.
6."That the decrees and ecclesiastical ordinances of the prelates and the clergy, in the province of -Canterbury, in their last assembly, held, with the consent of the king and the nobles, in the last parliament, against him who was recently burnt alive in the city of London, were not powerful enough to change the purpose of that martyr; because the substance of the material bread, in the sacrament of the altar, is the same as it was before, and no change is made, in the nature of the bread by consecration.
7."That any layman, though he have not studied at college, has a right to preach the Gospel everywhere, and that he may teach (provided he has been properly elected thereto by his church, as has been stated elsewhere) upon his own authority, without permission from his ordinary bishop.
8."That it is sin to give anything to the Dominicans, Minorites, Augustinians, and Carmelites.
9."That we ought not to sacrifice at the funerals of the dead.
10."That auricular confession of sins to the priest is unnecessary.
11."That every good man, though he be unlearned, is a priest before God.
12."That a child, though it die unbaptized, will be saved."
13."That neither the pope, nor the, prelates; nor any ordinary, can compel any one to swear, either by any of God's creatures, or by the Bible, or by the New Testament."
14."That the bishop as well as a common man, and a layman as well as the priest, are of equal authority, as long as they live aright.
15."That no one is bound to accord any bodily reverence (that is, by bending the knee and worshiping, as was then customary in England), to any prelate."
A. D. 1402.-About this time, Thomas Walsingham, a bitter papistic historian records some articles of the above-mentioned people, which, as he states, one Louis of Clifford, formerly a defender of the faith of these people, had discovered to the archbishop of Canterbury. The fifth of those articles reads as follows, "If they (the said people) had a new-born infant, they would not have it baptized in church, by the hands of the priest." (Thom. Wals., in Hist., Reg. Angl. and Hypodigmate Neustrie, A. D. 1402.)
A. D. 1407.-Or about this time, William Thorpe, formerly an English priest, was apprehended for the faith, who, as it is stated, had been persecuted greatly already in the year 1397. He was charged with holding as his faith these five articles
1."That in the sacrament of the altar, also after the consecration, that is, after the priest has read the canon, it still remains real bread.
2."That images are not to be worshiped, nor any honor shown them.
3."That no pilgrimages ought to be made.
4."That the priests have no right to appropriate the titles to themselves.
5."That men ought not to swear."
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