General Prologue of the Wycliffe Bible the later version of Wycliffe Bibles at about 1395–1397. The other two "General Prologues" are attached to revised earlier version Wycliffe Bibles, revised 1395–1397. There are more than 200 later versions of the Wycliffe Bible that do not have the "General Prologue" attached. The Prologue contains wording that indicates it was written between 1395 and 1397. Purvey, as the eximious doctor prominent leader of the Lollards at the time, is credited with the later version Wycliffe Bible New Testament portion, as well as the "General Prologue." Chapter fifteen shows the procedures how the Lollard translators went about their work of
John Wycliffe rather than in the "visible" Catholic Church. To Wycliffe, the Church was the totality of those who are predestined to blessedness. No one who is eternally lost has part in it. There is one universal Church, and outside of it there is no salvation. His first tracts and greater works of ecclesiastical-political content defended the privileges of the State. By 1379 in his "De ecclesia" ("On the Church"), Wycliffe clearly claimed the supremacy of the king over the priesthood. He rejected the concept of purgatory, and disapproved of clerical celibacy, pilgrimages, the selling of indulgences and praying to saints. So