Excerpt from Lives of the British Reformers: From Wickliff to Foxe British Reformers have been assailed with un precedented violence. They have been denounced as hypocrites and time-servers, and been charged with base subserviency to the will Of a licentious despot, to gratify whose evil passions they sacrificed the welfare Of England, the unity of the church, and the cause Of truth. That such accusations should have been brought against them by avowed Romanists is not surprising. But it is a strange and startling circumstance that in our days the charges Should have been echoed and exaggerated by members and ministers Of the church Of which they were the chief founders, and for which they laid down their lives. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.