THE LIFE OF JOHN WYCLIFFE, D. D. BY MARGARET COXE, AUTHOR OF "THE YOUNG LADY'S COMPANION," "BOTANY OF THE COLUMBUS: PUBLISHED BY ISAAC N. WHITING. M DCCC XL. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1840, by ISAAC N. WHITING, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Ohio. WESTERN CHURCH PRESS: PRINTED BY THOMAS R. RAYMOND, Gambier, Ohio. PREFACE. In the present age of Christianity, there is reason to fear that the youthful members of our Protestant communities, receiving their privileges as it were by inheritance, and with little personal effort, may become unmindful of their own great advantages, and lose much of the interest which they would otherwise have felt in the trials and conflicts of those, who were the honoured instruments in God's hands, of delivering their church from the cruel bonds of popery, simply because, never having studied the subject, they have been unable to realize the extent of that tyranny, or the character of their spiritual deliverers. For these and other reasons, it has been thought advisable to commence for |