 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - Theologians - 1826 - 228 pages
...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... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - Theologians - 1826 - 224 pages
...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... | |
 | 1831 - 544 pages
...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... | |
 | Protestant association - 1843 - 778 pages
...— 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... | |
 | John Dowling - Papacy - 1845 - 698 pages
...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... | |
 | Papacy - 1853 - 566 pages
...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... | |
 | August Neander - Church history - 1858 - 730 pages
...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... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 852 pages
...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... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 858 pages
...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... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1869 - 850 pages
...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... | |
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antichrist, the proud, worldly priest of Rome, the most cursed of clippers and purse kervers. 
