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From Here to Forever
fearless testimony to the truth in dungeon cells and in the midst of
torture and flame, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to know
“the fellowship of his sufferings.”
The papists’ hatred could not be satisfied while Wycliffe’s body
rested in the grave. More than forty years after his death his bones
were exhumed and publicly burned, and the ashes thrown into a
neighboring brook. “This brook,” says an old writer, “hath conveyed
his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas,
they into the main ocean. And thus the ashes of Wycliffe are the
emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over.
Through the writings of Wycliffe, John Huss of Bohemia was
led to renounce many of the errors of Romanism. From Bohemia
the work extended to other lands. A divine hand was preparing the
way for the Great Reformation.
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T. Fuller. Church History of Britain, bk. 4, sec. 2, par. 54.