John Foxe: "Acts and Monuments," 3:21ff.

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1382. Articles of John Wycliffe. The heretical articles (21). 1. That the substance of material bread and wine doth remain in the sacrament of the altar after the consecration. 2. That the accidents do not remain without the subject in the same sacrament, after the consecration. 3. That Christ is not in the sacrament of the altar truly and really, in his proper and corporal person. 4. That if a bishop or a priest be in deadly sin, he doth not order, consecrate, or baptize. 5. That if a man be duly and truly contrite and penitent, all exterior and outward confession is but superfluous and unprofitable unto him. 6. That God ought to obey the devil. 7. That it is not found or established by the gospel that Christ did make or ordain mass. 8. That if the pope be a reprobate and evil man, and consequently a member of the devil, he hath no power by any manner of means given unto him over faithful Christians, except peradventure it be given him by the emperor. 9. That since the time of Urban VI. there is none to be received for pope, but every man is to live after the manner of the Greeks, under his own law. 10. That it is against the sacred Scripture, that ecclesiastical ministers should have any temporal possessions. Erroneous Articles by Wycliffe (21): 11. That no prelate ought to excommunicate any man except he know him first to be excommunicate of God. 12. That he who doth so excommunicate any man, is thereby himself either a heretic or excommunicated. 13. That a prelate or bishop excommunicating any of the clergy, who hath appealed to the king or the council, is thereby himself a traitor to the king and realm. 14. That all who do leave off preaching or hearing the word of God, or preaching the gospel, for fear of excommunication, are already excommunicated, and in the day of judgment shall be counted as traitors unto God. 15. That it is lawful for any man, either deacon or priest, to preach the word of God without authority or license of the apostolic see or any other of its catholics. 16. That so long as a man is in deadly sin, he is neither bishop nor prelate in the church of God. 17. Also that the temporal lords may, according to their own will and discretion, take away the temporal goods from the churchmen whensoever they do offend. 18. That tenths are pure alms, and that the parishioners may, for offence of then- curates, detain and keep them back, and bestow them upon others, at their own will and pleasure. 19. Also, that all special prayers applied to any private or particular person, by any prelate or religious man, do no more profit the same person, than general or universal prayers do profit others, who be in like case or state unto him. 20. That he that giveth alms to the friars, or to any friar that preacheth, is excommunicate, both he that giveth and he that taketh. 21. Moreover, if any man doth enter into any private religion, whatsoever it be, he is thereby made the more unapt and unable to observe and keep the commandments of God. We also get a minor note from Foxe about the “Earthquake Synod” on the day of synodical deliberations. A letter of Archbishop William Courtney to the Bishop of London against John Wycliffe. Also, Courtney’s letter to Chancellor of Oxford against Wycliffe, Nicholas Herford, Philip Reppinton, and John Ashton. UPSHOT FROM THE ABC: GIVE THESE BOYS NO QUARTER. SHUT ‘EM DOWN.