[151] See Gilly’s Researches among the Vaudois, 76., and his Second Visit, 219. It appears that the several liturgies of Geneva, Neufchatel and Lausanne are used at present; but that of Geneva by the majority of the pastors. On comparing the brief sketch of this service (given by Mr. Gilly as the one of La Torre) with the Geneva “Forme of Common Praires, made by Master John Calvyne,” we may conjecture that the latter is in a great measure retained. [152] See Dante’s Purgatorio, c. xvi. xxxii. Petrarc. Son. 196. [153] De Christianarum Ecclesiar. Successione et Statu. c. vi. § 19. 33. [154] Eccl. Biog. i. 99. [155] See Mr. Gilly’s Narrative, 78. [156] Ellis’s Letters, i. 110. 2d Series. [157] Ecc. Biog. i. 234. [158] Latin was the common language of schools also before and at the Reformation. In the “Monita Pædagogica ad suos Discipulos” of Lily, the grammarian, and first master of Paul’s, is the following admonition:-- “Et quoties loqueris, memor esto loquare _Latine_, Et veluti scopulos barbara verba fuge.” [159] Ecc. Biog. i. 30. note. [160] Inferno, c. ix. [161] Ecc. Biog. i. 97, 98. [162] Mark, xi. 32. [163] See Milner’s History of the Church, iv. 109. [164] See Milner’s History of the Church, iv. 130–136. [165] See Wickliffe’s Life as given in Fox, extracted in Wordsworth’s Ecc. Biog. i. 52. 121. [166] 1 Sam. ii. 17. 24. [167] Matt. xxiii. 2, 3. [168] Ecc. Biog. i. 53. [169] Ecc. Biog. i. 22. [170] Ecc. Biog. i. 125. 138. [171] Ecc. Biog. i. 120, 121. 125. [172] Ecc. Biog. i. 162. [173] Ecc. Biog. i. 182. [174] See the opinions of this reformer, collected from his works, in the Rev. H. Baber’s life of him, p. 32. [175] Ecc. Biog. i. 170. [176] Ecc. Biog. i. 176. [177] In one particular, this peculiarity of the Lollard must have administered a very wholesome rebuke to a sin of the times. He would not swear by any of the members of Christ’s body, which was the heedless fashion of the day, but would content himself with such an affirmation, as “I am syker it is _soth_.” (See the Rev. H. Baber’s Memoirs of Wickliffe, prefixed to his Translation of the New Testament, p. 35.) May not the phrase a “_yea-forsooth_ knave,” used by Falstaff (2 Hen. IV, ii. sc. 2,) have been a popular term of obloquy, originally applied to the Lollards by the dissolute and profane? See also Chaucer, “The Shipmanne’s Prologue.” [178] Neal’s Hist. of Puritans, i. 6. [179] Fox, i. 740. [180] Isaiah, lv. 10, 11. [181] Ecc. Biog. i. 290; where Fox and others attest these things.