and giuyng of grace doth not suffice, except beliefe come on his part, that is remitted.

Thinke not thy sinne to bee assoyled, for the worthynes of thy contrition, but for the worde of Christ: What so euer thou loosest. &c.MarginaliaMath. 16. When thou art absolued of the Priest, trust confidently vpon these wordes, and beleue firmely thy selfe to be absolued, and then art thou truly remitted.

Admitte the partie that is confessed were not contrite (whiche is Marginalia* Impossible, because it cā not be that the fayth of the true confessour can be without contrition.* impossible) or that the Priest pronounced the wordes of losing not in earnest, but in ieste: yet if the partie beleue that he is absolued, he is truly absolued in dede.

In the Sacrament of penaunce and absolution, the Pope, or Byshop do no more, then any inferiour Priest can do. Yea and where a Priest is not to bee had, there euery Christen man, yea or Christen woman standeth in as good stede.

Marginalia* He meaneth thys, because that as no mā knoweth all hys sinnes, so no man can be contrite for hem sufficiētly.* None ought to say to the Priest, that hee is contrite, neither ought the Priest to aske any such matter.

It is a great errour of them whiche come to the holy housell trustyng vpon thys, that they are confessed, that their conscience grudgeth them of no deadly sinne, that they haue sayd their prayers, and done such other preparatiues before: all those do eate and drinke to their own iudgement. But if they beleue there to obteyne Gods grace, this fayth maketh them pure and worthy.

It were good, that the Churche should determine in a generall Councell, lay men to communicate vnder both kindes: and the Bohemians so doyng, be therein neither heretickes, nor schismatikes.

The treasures out of whiche the Pope doth graunt hys Indulgences, are not the merites of Christ, nor of the Saintes.

Indulgences & Pardons be a deuout seducing of the faithfull, & a hinderaunce to good workes: and are in the nūber of them, which be thynges

Marginalia* Thys he correcteth in hys Assertions of these Articles, & saith that Indulgences be neyther lawfull nor expedient. And lykewyse hee correcteth and reuoketh the Articles following of Indulgences, and taketh all Indulgences & Pardons cleane away.* lawfull, but not expedient.

Pardons and Jndulgences, to them whiche haue them, auayle not to remission of the punishement due before God, for actuall sinnes committed.

They which thinke that Indulgences are wholesome & conducible to the fruite of the spirite, are deceaued.

Indulgences are onely necessary for publicke transgressions, and are onely graunted to them that are obstinate and impatient.

Indulgences and Pardons are vnprofitable to 6. sortes of persons. 1. to them that be dead, or lye in dying. 2. to them that be weake and infirme. 3. to such as haue lawfull impedimentes. 4. to them that haue not offended. 5. to such as haue offended but not publickely. 6. to those that amende and doo well.

Excommunications be onely outward punishmentes, and do not depriue a man of the publicke spirituall prayers of the Churche.

Christians are to be taught rather to loue excommunication, then to dread it.

The Byshop of Rome, successour of Peter, is not the Vicar of Christ, ordeyned by Christ & S. Peter, to haue authoritie ouer all the Churches in the world.

The woordes of Christ to Peter, What so euer thou loosest, &c. Mat. 16. extend no further, but onely to those thynges, whiche be bounde of Peter hym selfe.

It is not in the handes either of the church or of the Pope, to make Articles of the fayth, yea or lawes either of maners, or good workes.

Albeit the Pope with a great part of the Churche teachyng so or so, dyd not erre therin: yet it is no sinne nor heresie for a man to holde contrary to them, namely in such thynges, whiche are not necessary to saluation, so long as it is not otherwise condemned or approued by a generall Councell.

We haue a waye made playne vnto vs to infrynge the authoritie of Councels, & frely to gaynstand their doynges, & to iudge vpon their Decrees, and boldly to speake our knowledge what soeuer we iudge to be true, whether the same bee approued or reproued by any generall Councell.

Some of the Articles of Iohn Hus condemned in the Councell of Constance, are Christian, most true, and Euāgelicall, whom the Vniuersall Churche can not condemne.

In euery good worke the iust man sinneth.

* Euery good woorke of ours, when it is best done, is a veniall sinne.

To burne heretickes is agaynst the will of the spirite.Marginalia* This Article is true, if the worke should be brought to be tryed by Gods iudgemēt.. And here also he correcteth hym self in thys word veniall, because all sinnes are damneble.

Marginalia* He meaneth that we should speciallye reforme our liues, which deserue the Turkes to plage vs.* To fight against the Turkes, is to repugne against God visityng our iniquities by them.

Free will after sinne, is a title and name onely of a thyng, and while a man doth that which lyeth in hym, he sinneth deadly.

Purgatory can not be proued out of holy Scripture, which is Canonicall.

Soules in Purgatory be not certain of theyr safetie, at least not all, neither is it proued by reasons or by Scriptures, that they be vtterly out of the state to deserue, or encrease charitie.

Marginalia* These Articles also of Purgatorye he correcteth, and taketh Pugatorye cleane awaye.* Soules in Purgatory do sinne without intermissiō, so long as they seeke rest, and dread punishement.

The Soules beyng deliuered out of Purgatory by the prayers of the liuyng, be lesse blessed, then if they had satisfied for them selues.

Ecclesiasticall Prelates and worldly Princes should not do amysse, if they woulde scoure away all the bagges of begging Friers.

All which errours there is no mā in his right wittes but he knoweth the same in their seuerall respectes, how pestilent they be, how pernitious, how much they seduce godly and simple mindes, and finally, how much they be agaynst all charity, and agaynst the reuerence of the holy Church of Rome, the mother of all faythfull, and mistres of the fayth it self, and agaynst the synewes & strength of ecclesiasticall discipline, which is obedience, the fountaine and wellspring of all vertues, and without the which euery man is to be conuinced easely to be an infidell.

We therefore desyryng to proceede in the premisses more earnestly, as behoueth in thinges of most importaūce, and meaning to cutte of the course of thys pestiferous and cankered decease, lest it should spread it selfe further in the Lordes field, lyke hurtfull brābles or bryers, and vsing vpon the said errours, and euery of them, diligent triall, debatyng, straite examination, ripe deliberation: and further, weying and thorowly sifting all and euery of the same together with our reuerend brethrē, MarginaliaConcilium malignantium.the Cardinals of the holy church of Rome, the Priors of the orders regular, or ministers generall, also with dyuers other professours & masters of Diuinitye, and of both the Lawes, and those the best learned: do fynde the foresaid errours or articles respectiuely, as is aforesayd, not to be catholike, nor to be taught as catholike, but to be against the doctrine or tradition of the Catholike church, and against the true interpretation of holy scripture receaued by the same: to whose authoritie Augustine thought we ought so much to leane, that hee would not (as he sayd) haue beleued the Gospell, if the authoritie of the Churche had not therto moued hym.

MarginaliaThe Pope taketh vpon hym the title of a false Church.For by these errours, or at least by some of them it foloweth consequently, that the same Churche, whiche is guyded by the holy Ghost, now doth, and euer hath erred, which is vtterly agaynst that, which Christ at þ^e time of his Ascensiō (as we read in þ^e holy gospel of Mathew) promised to his Disciples, saying: I am vvith you vntill the end of the vvorld &c.: and also agaynst the determinations of the holy fathers, agaynst the expresse ordinaunces or Canons of Councels and head Byshops, whom not to obey, hath alwayes bene the cause and nourse of all heresies and schismes, as Cyprian doth witnes.

MarginaliaThe Articles of Luther condemned.Wherefore by the Councell and assent of the sayd our reuerend brethren, vpon due consideration of all and singular the premisses, by the authoritie of almighty God, and of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and our own, we do condemne, reproue, and vtterly reiect, all and singulare the Articles or errours aforesayd respectiuely, as some to be hereticall, some to bee sclaunderous, some offensiue to godly eares, or els seducyng simple myndes, and repugnant to the Catholicke truth, and by the tenour hereof, we here decree and declare that they ought of all Christen people both men and wemen, to be taken as dāned, reproued, & reiected. And therfore forbyddyng here vnder paine of the greater curse, and excommunication, losing of their dignities, whether they be Eclesiasticall or temporall, and to be depriued & made vncapable of all regular orders and priuiledges, geuen and graunted by þ^e sea Apostolicke of what conditiō soeuer they be: