for the individual the Christian's only offensive weapon against 

corruption of faith and misplaced faith, ". . . the sword of the Spirit, 

which is the Word of God. . . .", Ephesians 6:17.  The demarcation 

between the Medieval and Modern ages is singly marked by the 

event of the Wycliffe Bible, dated in 1382.  No other fact will 

propel the progress of liberty further than placing the Word of God 

into the hands of the individual. The Wycliffe Bible is the first, real 

break from Latin Christianity.  Providence prepared a people to 

move the Gospel forward, prepared a people to advance not only 

evangelical liberty, but both evangelical and political liberty and to 

begin the centuries - long process of reconciling liberty with law by 

means of God's law of Liberty:  spiritual liberty reconciled with 

ecclesiastical law, ecclesiastical liberty reconciled with civil law, 

civil liberty reconciled with national law, national law reconciled 

with the law among nations.