...wickedness of the Pope.* He proclaimed him to be that Antichrist foretold in Scripture ; and styling him the proud worldly priest of Rome, the most cursed of clippers and purse-carvers, he let loose against * Long before this, in 1253, Bishop Grosteste had thus spoken of...

...wickedness of the Pope.* He proclaimed him to be that Antichrist foretold in Scripture ; and styling him the proud worldly priest of Rome, the most cursed of clippers and purse-carvers, he let loose against * Long before this, in 1253, Bishop Grosteste had thus spoken of...

...convinced of the necessity of a thorough reformation in ecclesiastical affairs. He now styled the pope, " antichrist, the proud, worldly priest of Rome, the most cursed of clippers and purse kervers." We find strong expressions in his subsequent writings, but when we refer to the corruptions...

...— the most pestilent, abomination that ever has been, or ever will be." Wickliff styled the Pope " Antichrist, the proud, worldly priest of Rome, the most cursed of clippers and purse-cutters ;" and Dr. Rowland Taylor, who was burnt on Oldham Common, at the desire of our " dear...

...powerful protection of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster. This danger, after denouncing the Pope as " anti-Christ, the proud, worldly priest of Rome, the most cursed of clippers and pursekervers, was greater than ever ; yet he shrunk not from duty through fear of the consequences, and in the words...

...sentiments and style, both on literary and religious topics, he transferred to his own writings. Wiclif declaimed from the pulpit, and in his lecture-room...their wealth :— " By this gaude I wonnen yere by yere An hundred mark, since I was pardonere. 000*0 Of avarice and of swiche cursednesse Is all my preaching...

...wrote against the worldly spirit of the papacy, and its hurtful influence. He was wont to call the pope Antichrist, "the proud worldly priest of Rome,"* " the most cursed of clippers and purse-kervers." He says in one of his papers, f "The pope and his collectors draw from our country what should serve...

...previously forming in his mind, and he is said, soon after his return to England, to have styled the pope ' Antichrist,' ' the proud worldly Priest of Rome, the...cursed of Clippers and Purse-kervers ' (cut-purses). Then began in real earnest his troubles with the hierarchy. In the beginning of 1378, he was summoned...

...previously forming in his mind, and he is said, soon after his return to Eugland, to have styled the pope ' Antichrist,' ' the proud worldly Priest of Rome, the...cursed of Clippers and Purse-kervers ' (cut-purses). Then began in real earnest his troubles with the hierarchy. In the beginning of 1378, he was summoned...

...previously forming in his mind, and he is said, soon after his return to England, to have styled the pope ' Antichrist,' ' the proud worldly Priest of Rome, the...cursed of Clippers 'and Purse-kervers ' (cut-purses). Then began in real earnest his troubles with the hierarchy. In the beginning of 1378, he was summoned...