The English works of Wyclif hitherto unprinted.Edited by F. D. Matthew.

XXV. DE SACRAMENTO ALTARIS.

IN this little tract Wyclif sums up the difference between his teaching on the Eucharist and that of the friars. It is curious to see him taking up the position of a loyal son of the Church, and complaining that his adversaries accuse the Pope and the Court of Rome of heresy. As the tract is evidently a fragment, it may be that in the larger piece from which it was taken he had alleged some utterance of the Roman see in his favour; perhaps the oath of Berengarius, to which he often appealed, although his opponents might have cited it on their side with at least equal confidence.

Copied from the Bodleian MS. (A), and collated with the Dublin MS. (AA).

SUMMARY.
The friars say that the bread which Christ broke is neither bread nor his body p. 357
They accuse the Church of sharing their heresy 357
The true faith is that the Host is both bread and Christ's body 357

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The English works of Wyclif hitherto unprinted.Edited by F. D. Matthew.
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Wycliffe, John, d. 1384.
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London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by Trübner & co.,
1880.

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