Cambden says, this was done forty-one years after his death by warrant of the council of Sienna: But this is a mistake, for it was done by the same council of Constance, which condemned John Huss, and Jerom of Prague, to be burnt for favouring the doctrine of Wickliffe, and maintaining others which were also condemned as heretical. This council sat to give sanction to injustice, and to establish iniquity by law; though it inflicted an irretrievable blow upon the papal authority. It is said, that the gown which doctor Wickliffe wore now covers the communion table in the church of Lutterworth: and, as this eminent man may justly be considered as the author of the reformation, not only in England, but throughout all Europe; sure some decent respect should have been paid to his worth, and a public monument erected to his memory. The Wickliffites were oppressed, but could not be extinguished Persecution served only to establish that faith which became general at the reformation, about a hundred years after these restraints were moderated. The whole nation then unanimously embraced the doctrine which Wickliffe began; and popery was abolished in England, that the purity of religion might increase the blessings of liberty. Of His works (says Mr Gilpin) are amazingly voluminous; yet he seems not to have engaged in any very large work: His pieces in general may be properly called tracts. these many were written in Latin, and many in English: Some on school-questions; others on subjects of more general knowledge; but the greatest part on divinity. It may be some amusement to the reader to see what subjects he hath chosen. I shall give a list therefore of the more remarkable of them, from the various collections which have been made. Trialagorum, lib. 4. fectorum.- De ecclesia & membris. bris.- -De Christo & Antichristo.. membris.Sermones in epistolas. De statu innocentiæ. De religione perDe diabolo & memDe Antichristo E -De veritate scripturæ. De stipendiis ministrorum. De year 1915. He defpifed the facraments of the church, and derided her ceremonies and her conftitutions; obferved not the fafts of the church, nor its abftinencies; acknowledged not the interceffion of the faints, and believed that the damned in hell, and even the evil angels, thould one day be faved. Trithemius, who recites their opinion, fays, that Bohemia and Auftria were infected with them; that there were above 24,000 perfons in Germany which held thofe errors, and that the greater part defended them with obftinacy, even to death.-Du Pin. -De -De De episcoporum erroribus.- -De curatorum erroribus.De perfectione evangelica.De officio pastorali. simoniá sacerdotum.Super poenitentiis injungendis. seductione simplicium.- Dæmonum astus in subvertendâ religione. De pontificum Romanorum schismate.De ultimá ætate ecclesia. Of temptation.The chartre of hevene.Of ghostly battel.- -Of ghostly and fleshly love.--The confession of St Brandoun.. Active life, and contemplative. Virtuous patience. ones piæ in Christi præcepta. Of pride. -Observati De impedimentis orationis. De cardinalibus virtutibus. Expositio orationis dominica.- De 7 sacramentis.. -De naturâ fidei. -De diversis gradibus charitatis.De defectione à Christo. -De veritate & mendacio.. De sacerdotio Levitico. De sacerdotio Christi. De dotatione Casared.--De versutiis pseudocleri.De immortalitate anima. De paupertate Christi.De physicá naturali. De essentia accidentium. De necessitate Inturorum.temporis quidditate. De temporis ampliatione. ribus corporalibus:- -De operibus spiritualibus. &perfidia. -De sermone Domini in montem. -- De De ope-De fide -Abstrac tiones logicales. A short rule of life.-The great sentence of Of good priests.De contrarietate Wickliffe's wicket. the curse expounded. duorum dominorum. 2. rum conjugio. -De religiosis privatis. natione verbi. -De ministro- morte.- De vita sacerdotum.- -De ablatis restituendis. De arte sophisticâ. De fonte errorum.. -De incar Super impositis articulis. De humanitate Christi.. Contra concilium terra-motus,De solutione Satana. De spiritu quolibet. tismo. De clavium potestate.. paupertate Christi.. De raritate teriâ & formá.. -De anima. De Christianorum bap-De blasphemiâ.- -De & densitate. De ma-Octo beatitudines. -De trinitate. Commentarii in psalterium.De abominatione desolationis. De civili dominio.— nio. De ecclesiæ domi -De De divino dominio.. De origine sectarum.perfidia sectarum.-Speculum de antichristo.De virtute orandi.De remissione fraterna.De censuris ecclesia. De charitate fraterna. De purgatorio piorum. De Pharisao & Publicano. His great work, and what offended the church of Rome most highly, was his Translation of the Scriptures into English, which effectually exposed the sophistries and superstitions of the time, and led the people from following the traditions of men to the pure will and word of the blessed GOD. JOHN JOHN HUSS, D. D. THE BOHEMIAN REFORMER. OHN HUSS, or Hus, whose name in the Bohemian language signifies Goose, was born at Hussenitz, a village in Bohemia. His parents were not blest with affluence; but they gave him a liberal education, which he improved by his strong mental abilities, and close application to his studies, in the university of Prague, where he commenced batchelor of arts, in 1393, master of arts in 1395, and batchelor of divinity in 1408. Huss was a man (says Wharton in his appendix to Cave's Historia Literaria) even by the confession of his enemies, illustrious and remarkable both for doctrine and piety. It was in this year that Sbynko, or Subinsko Lepus, the archbishop of that city, issued two orders to suppress the doctrine of the Wickliffites, which had been introduced into that kingdom, and was countenanced by the greatest part of the masters and scholars of the university of Prague, who, by a providence we shall mention presently, had got the books of Wickliffe into their hands. Queen Anne, the wife of king Richard II. of England, was daughter to the emperor Charles IV. and sister to Wenceslaus king of Bohemia, and Sigismund emperor of Germany. She was a princess of great piety, virtue, and knowledge; nor could she endure the implicit and unreasonable service and devotion of the Romish church. Her death happened in 1394, and her funeral was attended by all the nobility of England. She had patronized Wickliffe, who speaks of her in his book " Of the three-fold bond of Love," in these words; "It is possible that the noble queen of Eng❝land, the sister of Cæsar, may have the gospel written "in three languages, Bohemian, German, and Latin: "But to hereticate her, on this account, would be Lu"ciferian folly." After her death, several of Wickliffe's books were carried by her attendants into Bohemia, and were the means of promoting the reformation there. The books of Wickliffe were carried into Bohemia by Peter Payne, an Englishman, one of his disciples: But the archbishop of Prague ordered the members of that university |