this most happy victory shalbe continually celebrate to thy great honour and prayse, that thou hast restored agayne the Church which was so spoyled, thou hast remoued and put away all inueterate and ouergrowne Schismes and diuisions, thou hast troden downe vsers of Symony, and rooted out all heretikes. Doost thou not behold and see how great, perpetual, and famous renowne & glory it wil be vnto thee? For what can be more iust, what more holy, what more better, what more to be desired, or finally what can be more acceptable then to roote out this wicked and abhominable Schisme, to restore the Church agayne vnto her auncient libertie, to extinguish and put away all Simony, and to condemne and destroy all errours and heresies from amongest the flocke of the faythfull? Nothyng truly can be better, nothyng more holy, nothyng more profitable for the whole world, and finally nothyng more acceptable vnto God. For the performaunce of which most holy and godly worke thou wast elect and chosen of God, thou wast first deputed and chosen in heauen, before thou wast elect & chosen vpon earth. Thou wast first appointed by the celestiall and heauenly prince, before the electours of the Empire dyd elect or chuse thee, and specially that by thy Imperiall force and power, thou shouldest condemne and destroy those errours and heresies, which we haue presently in hand to be condemned & subuerted. To the perfourmaunce of this most holy worke, God hath geuen unto thee the knowledge and vnderstandyng of his diuine truth and veritie, power of princely maiestie, and the iust iudgement of equitie and righteousnes, as the most highest himselfe doth say: I haue geuen thee vnderstādyng and wisdome, to speake and vtter my wordes, and haue set thee to rule ouer nations and kyngdomes, MarginaliaLoripes rectū deridet, æthiopus album.that thou shouldest helpe the people, plucke down and destroy iniquitie, and by exercising of iustice thou shouldest, I say, destroy all errours and heresies, & specially this obstinate heretike here present, through whose wickednes and mischiefe, many places of the world are infected with most pestilent & hereticall poyson, and by his meanes and occasiō, almost vtterly subuerted and destroyed. This most holy and godly labour, O most noble prince, was reserued onely for thee, vpō thee it doth onely lye, vnto whom the whole rule and ministration of iustice is geuen. MarginaliaNote the vile flattery of these papistes when they would haue any thing of the Emperour for their purpose.Wherefore thou hast established thy prayse and renowne, euen by the mouthes of infantes and sucking babes, for thy prayses shalbe celebrate for euermore that thou hast destroyed and ouerthrowen such and so great enemyes of the fayth. The whiche that thou mayst prosperously and happely perfourme and bryng to passe, our Lorde Iesu Christ may vouchsafe to graunt thee his grace and helpe, who is blessed for euer and euer. Amen.

MarginaliaThe proctor of the councell calleth for the sentence.When this Sermon was thus ended, the Procurer of the Councell rising vp, named Henricus de Piro, required that the processe of the cause agaynst Iohn Hus might be continued, and procede vnto the difinitiue sentence. Then a certaine Byshop which was appointed one of the Iudges, declared the processe of the cause, whiche was pleaded long since in the Court of Rome, and els where, betwene Iohn Hus, and the Prelates of Prage.

At the last he repeated those articles which we haue before remembred, amongest the which he rehearsed also one article that Iohn Hus should teach the two natures of the Godhead and manhead to be one Christ. Iohn Hus went about briefly wyth a word or two to aunswere vnto euery one of them, but as often as he was about to speake, MarginaliaThe Cardinal of Cambray commaunded I. Hus to kepe silence.the Cardinall of Cambray cōmaunded him to holde hys peace, saying: hereafter you shall aunswere to all together, if you will. Then sayd Iohn Hus, how can I at once aūswere vnto all those thinges which are alledged agaynst me, whē as I cannot remember them all? Then sayd the Cardinall of Florence, we haue heard thee sufficiently. But whē as I. Hus for all that, would not hold hys peace, they sent the officers which should force him thereunto. MarginaliaI. Hus could not be heard in the councell.Then began he to intreat, pray, and besech them, that they would heare hym, that such as were present might not credite or beleue those thynges to be true which were reported of him. MarginaliaI. Hus committeth his cause to the Lord Christ.But when all this would nothing preuaile, he kneeling downe vpon his knees, committed the whole matter vnto God & the Lord Iesus Christ, for at their handes he beleued easely to obtayne that which he desired.

When the articles aboue said were ended, last of all there was added a notable blasphemy, MarginaliaMarke the vnshamefastnes of them to faine what they list.which they all imputed vnto Iohn Hus. That is, that he sayd there shoulde be a fourth person in diuinitie, and that a certaine Doctour dyd heare hym speake the same. When Iohn Hus desired that the Doctour myght be named, the byshop which had alledged the article, sayd that it was not needefull to name him. MarginaliaI. Hus agayne slaundered.Then sayd Iohn Hus, O miserable and wretched man that I am, which am forced and compelled to beare such blasphemy and slaunder.

MarginaliaThe councell doth call it hereticall to appeale to Christ.Afterward the Article was repeated howe he appealed vnto Christ, and that by name, was called hereticall. Whereunto Iohn Hus aunswered: O Lord Iesu Christ whose word is openly condemned here in this Councell, vnto thee agayne I do appeale: which when thou wast euill intreated of thyne ennemies, diddest appeale vnto God thy father, committyng thy cause vnto a most iust Iudge, that by thy exāple we also beyng oppressed with manifest wronges and iniuries, should flee vnto thee. MarginaliaContempt of the popes excommunication layd to I. Hus.Last of all the Article was rehearsed, as touchyng the contempt of the excommunication by Iohn Hus. Whereunto he aunswered as before, that he was excused by his aduocates in the court of Rome, wherfore he dyd not appeare when he was cited: and also that it may be proued by the actes, that the excommunication was not ratified: and finally to the intēt he might cleare himselfe of obstinacie, he was for that cause come vnto Constance vnder the Emperours safeconduict. When he had spoken these wordes, one of them whiche was appointed iudges, read the definitiue sentence agaynst him, whiche followeth thus word for word.

MarginaliaThe sentence redde agaynst Iohn Hus.THe most holy and sacred generall Councell of Constāce, beyng cōgregate and gathered together, representing the Catholike Church for a perpetuall memory of the thyng, as the veritie & truth doth witnesse, an euill tree bringeth forth euill fruite: hereupon it commeth that the man of most damnable memory Iohn Wickleffe through his pestiferous doctrine, not through Iesu Christ by the Gospell, as the holy fathers in tymes past, haue gotten faythfull children, but cōtrary vnto the holesome fayth of Iesus Christ, as a most venemous root, hath begotten many pestilent and wicked children, whom he hath left behynd him, successors and followers of his peruerse and wicked doctrine, agaynst whom this sacred Synode of Constance is forced to rise vp, as agaynst bastardes and vnlawfull children, and with diligent care, with the sharpe knife of the Ecclesiasticall autoritie, to cut vppe their errours out of the Lordes field as most hurtfull brambles and briers, least they should grow to the hurt and detriment of others.

For somuch then as in the holy generall Councell lately celebrated and holden at Rome, it was decreed that the doctrine of Iohn Wicklieffe of most dānable memory should be cōdemned, and that his bookes which conteined the same doctrine, should be burned as hereticall, and this decree was approued & confirmed by the sacred authoritie of the whole Councell: neuerthelesse one Iohn Hus here personally present in this sacred Councell, not the Disciple of Christ, but of Iohn Wicklieffe, an archeheretike, after, and contrary or agaynst the condemnation and decree, hath taught, preached, and affirmed the Articles of Wicklieff, which wer condemned by the Churche of God, and in tymes past by certaine most reuerend fathers in Christ, Lordes, Archebishops, and Byshops, of diuers kyngdomes and Realmes, Maisters of Diuinitie of diuers Vniuersities: especially resistyng in his open Sermons, and also with his adherentes and complices in the scholes, the condemnation of the sayd Articles of Wicklieffes, oftentymes published in the sayd Vniuersitie of Prage, and hath declared him the sayd Wicklieffe for the fauour and commendation of his doctrine, before the whole multitude of the Clergy and people, to be a Catholike man and a true Euangelicall Doctour. He hath also published & affirmed, certaine and many of his Articles worthely condemned, to be Catholike, the which are notoriously conteined in the bookes of the sayd Iohn Hus.

Wherfore, after diligent deliberation and full informatiō first had vppon the premisses by the reuerend fathers and Lordes in Christ of the holy Church of Rome, Cardinals, Patriarkes, Archbyshops, Byshops and other Prelates, and Doctours of Diuinitie and of both lawes in great number assembled and gathered together, MarginaliaThey shall bring you before their councells, they shall persecute you and cast you in prisons, and bryng you before kinges and presidentes for my name, &c. Luke. 21.this most sacred & holy Councell of Constance declareth and determineth the articles aboue sayd (the whiche after due conference had, are found in his bookes written with his own hand, the which also the sayd Ihon Hus in open audience before this holy Councell, hath confessed to be in his bookes) not to be Catholicke neither worthy to be taught, but that many of them are erroneous, some of them to be wicked, other some to be offensiue vnto godly eares, many of them to be temerarious and seditious and the greater parte of them to be notoriously hereticall, and euen now of late by the holy fathers and generall Councels, reproued and condēned. And for somuch as the sayd Articles are expressely conteined in the bookes of