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In 1412, twenty-eight years after Wycliff’s en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wycliffe death, the Archbishop of Canterbury ordered all of Wayeliffe’s works to be burned and in a letter to the Pope entered a list of two hundred sixty seven heresies “worthy of the fire” which he claimed to have culled from the pages of Wycliff’s Bible. He quoted as having said, “That wretched and pestilent fellow, son of a Serpent, herald and child of Antichrist, John Wycliffe, filled up the measure of his malice by divining the expedient of a new translation of Scripture in the mother tongue.”

The Church was not finished with him yet. The Emperor Sigismund, King of Hungary, called together the Council of Constance in 1414. It was the most imposing council ever called by the Catholic Church. In 1415 Wycliffe was condemned as a heretic and in the spring o1428 it was commanded that his bones be exhumed and removed from consecrated ground.

With the Primate of England looking on, Wycliffe’s remains were disinterred and burned, thus, presumably it was thought depriving him of any possibility of eternal life. For then the Last Judgment came and the bodies of the dead rose up to meet those souls chosen to live with God, Wycliffe would be unable to reunite body and soul and so, if he had not already perished in hell, as they prayed for and hoped, he would certainly perish at last. ~Page 87

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