Excerpt from Three Friends of God: Records From the Lives of John Tauler, Nicholas of Basle, Henry Suso

The short account given in the following pages of three of the "Friends of God" of the fourteenth century, is but a small fragment of a history which would form in itself a voluminous library, the History of the "Brethren" of the Middle Ages, known to us under many names, but in England chiefly as the Lollards or Boni Homines. Any account of these widely scattered and persecuted Christians, must necessarily be a very imperfect one, as their history is told us chiefly by enemies, who were both ignorant of their true principles, and eager to malign them. And when, as in the histories that follow, they were themselves the narrators, we find that their writings were altered and enlarged by copyists who had an interest in doing so, or who imagined they rendered them more edifying by additions of their own.

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