In his own scholastic phrase, so strangely perverted afterwards, here on earth "God must obey the devil." But whether in the ideal or practical view of the matter all power and dominion was of God.

It was granted by Him not to one person, His Vicar on earth, as the Papacy alleged, but to all.

The king was as truly God's Vicar as the Pope.

The royal power was as sacred as the ecclesiastical, and as complete over temporal things, even over the temporalities of the Church, as that of the Church over spiritual things.
So far as the question of Church and State therefore was concerned the distinction between the ideal and practical view of "dominion" was of little account.

Wyclif's application of the theory to the individual conscience was of far higher and wider importance.