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and deep was laid the foundation, so firm and

true was the framework, that it needed not to

be reconstructed by those who came after

him.

The great movement that Wycliffe

inaugurated, which was to liberate the

conscience and the intellect, and set free the

nations so long bound to the triumphal car of

Rome, had its spring in the Bible. Here was

the source of that stream of blessing, which,

like the water of life, has flowed down the

ages since the fourteenth century. Wycliffe

accepted the Holy Scriptures with implicit

faith as the inspired revelation of God's will, a

sufficient rule of faith and practice. He had

been educated to regard the Church of Rome

as the divine, infallible authority, and to

accept with unquestioning reverence the

established teachings and customs of a