WILLIAM WHYTE AND CO. AND MACLACHLAN AND STEWART, EDINBURGH; AND LONGMan, rees, orME, BROWN, and green, LONDON. M.DCCC.XXVI. 212. PREFACE. I DOUBT not that all who are interested in the history of the first struggles of the human mind to free itself from the intolerable chains of Catholic superstition, will give me a favourable perusal to this Life of Wickliff, " that Englishman," to use the words of Milton in his Tetrachordon," honoured of God to be the first Preacher of a general Reformation to all Europe." Dr John Lewis, in 1780, published a Life of Wickliff, a work especially valuable to the scholar for its numerous quotations from the manuscript writings of the Reformer, which are preserved in |