"It is plain to me that our prelates……" — John Wycliffe
"It is plain to me that our prelates in granting indulgences do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God. Our clerics neither evangelize like the apostles, nor go to war like the secular lords, nor toil like laborers."
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John Wycliffe
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