Now peraduenture I shall not speake much hereafter wyth you: Therfore salute in tyme as you shall see them, all the faythfull of Boheme.

MarginaliaWicked Palletz.Paletz came to me into prison. His salutation in my vehement infirmity, was this before the Commissaries, that there hath not risen a more perilous hereticke since Christ was borne, then was Wickeliffe and I. Also he sayd that all such as came to heare my talke, were infected with this heresie, to thinke that the substance of bread remayned in the sacrament of the aultar. To whom I aunswered and sayde: O maister, what a greuous salutation haue you geuen me? and how greatly do you sinne? Behold I shall dye or perauenture to morrow shalbe burnt. And what reward shall be recompensed to you in Boheme for your labour?

This thyng perauenture I should not haue written, lest I might seeme to hate hym. I haue alwayes had this in my hart, trust not in princes, &c. And agayne, cursed be the man which trusteth in man, and maketh flesh to be his arme. For Gods sake be you circumspect how you stand and how you return. Cary no letters with you. Direct your bookes not all by one, but diuersly by diuers frendes.

MarginaliaThe visions of I. Hus by dreames.Know this for certayne, that I haue hadde greate conflictes by dreames, in such sort as I had much a do to refrayne from crying out. For I dreamed of the Popes escape before he went. And after the Lord Iohn had told me therof, immediatly in the night it was told me that the Pope should returne to you agayne. And afterward also I dreamed of the apprehendyng of maister Hierome, although not in full maner as it was done. All the prisonmentes whether and how I am caried, were opened to me before, although not fully after the same forme and circumstance. Many serpentes oftentymes appeared vnto me hauyng heades also in theyr tayle: but none of them coulde byte me: and many other thinges more.

These thinges I write, not esteemyng my selfe as a prophet, or that I extoll my selfe, but onely to signifie vnto you what temptations I had in body and also in mynd, & what great feare I had, lest I should transgresse the commaundement of the Lord Iesus Christ. Now I remember with my selfe the wordes of maister Hierome, whiche sayde, MarginaliaA Prophesie of Maister Hierome of Prage.that if I should come to the Councell, he thought I should neuer returne home agayne. In like maner there was a good and godly man, a taylor, MarginaliaThis taylers name was Andrew, a Polonian.which takyng his leaue of me at Prage, spake to me in these wordes: God be with you (said he) for I thinke verily, my deare and good maister Iohn, that you shall not returne agayne to vs with your lyfe. The king, not of Hungary, but of heauen, reward you wyth all goodnesse, for the faythfull and doctrine which I at your handes haue receiued. &c.

¶ And shortly after the writyng hereof, he sendeth also vnto them an other propheticall vision of hys to be expounded, touchyng the reformation of the church, written in hys 44. epistle: the contentes wherof be these.

I Pray you expound to me the dreame of this night. I saw how that in my church of Bethleem, they came to rase & put out all the Images of Christ, and did put them out. MarginaliaProphetia.The next day after, I arose and saw many painters, which paynted and made more fairer Images and many more then I had done before: which Images I was very glad and ioyfull to behold. And the painters with much people about thē, said: let the Bishops and priestes come now, and put vs out these pictures. Which beyng done, much people seemed to me in Bethleem to reioyse, and I with them. And I awaking therwith, felt my selfe to laugh. &c.

¶ This vision Lord Iohn de Clum, and Iohn Hus himselfe in his booke of Epistles in the. 45. Epist. semeth to expounde, and applyeth these Images of Christ vnto the preachyng of Christ and of his lyfe. The which preachyng and doctrine of Christ, though the Pope and his Cardinals should extinguish in him, yet did hee foresee and declare, that the tyme should come, wherein the same doctrine should be reuyued agayne by others, so plenteously, that the Pope withall his power, should not be able to preuayle agaynst it. Thus much as concernyng this visiō of Iohn Hus. Wherunto doth wel accorde the Prophesie of Hierome of Prage, printed in the coyne called Moneta Hussi: of the which coyne I haue my selfe one of the plates hauyng this superscription folowyng printed about it, Centum reuolutis annis Deo respondebitis & mihi. That is, After a hundreth yeres come and gone, you shall geue a counte to God and to me. Wherof (God willyng) more shalbe sayd hereafter.

MarginaliaProphetia.Furthermore in 48. Epist. the sayd I. Hus semyng to speake with the like spirite of Prophecy, hath these wordes folowyng: Sed spero quod quæ dixi sub tecto, prædicabuntur super tecta. That is: but I trust that those thynges which I haue spoken within the house, hereafter shalbe preached vpon the top of the house.

And because we are here in hand with the Prophesies of Iohn Hus, it shall serue well in place, here moreouer to recorde his wordes in a certaine treatise by him written, De Sacerdotum & Monachorum carnalium Abhominatione, wherein the sayd Iohn Hus speakyng prophetically of the reformatiō of the Church, hath these wordes folowyng. Ex istis vlterius aduerte incidentaliter, quod Dei ecclesia nequit ad pristinam suam dignitatem reduci &c. That is in Engl.

MarginaliaProphetia.Moreouer, hereupon note and marke by the way, that the Church of GOD, can not be reduced to his former dignitie, or be reformed, before all thynges first be made new. The truth wherof is playne by the Temple of Salomon: Like as the Clergy, and Priests, so also the people and laity: Or els vnlesse all such as now be addict to auarice, from the least to the most, be first conuerted and reclaymed, as well the people, as the Clergy and Priestes. Albeit as my minde now geueth me, I beleue rather the first, that is, that then shall rise a new people, formed after the new man, whiche is created after God. Of the which people new Clerkes and Priestes shall come, and betaken: which all shall hate couetousnesse, and glory of this lyfe, hastyng to an heauenly conuersation. Notwithstandyng all these thynges shall come to passe and be brought by litle and litle in order of tymes, dispensed of God for the same purpose. And this God doth, & will do for his owne goodnes and mercy, and for the riches of his greate longanimitie and patience, geuyng tyme and space of repentance to them that haue long layne in their sinnes, to amende, and flye from the face of the Lordes fury, while that in like maner the carnall people, & carnal priestes successiuely and in time, shall fall away, and be consumed as with the mooth. &c.

MAister Martin, my deare brother in Christ, I exhort you in the Lord, that you feare God, kepe hys commaundementes, and flie the company of womē, MarginaliaNote that then priestes were not maried, & therfore he willeth him to aauoyde all company of womēand beware of hearyng their confessons, lest by the hypocrisie of women, Sathan deceyue you: trust not theyr deuotiōs. You know how I haue detested the auarice and the inordinate lyfe of the Clergy: wherefore through the grace of God, I suffer nowe persetution, which shortly shalbe consummate in me, neyther do I fear to haue my hart powered out for the name of Christ Iesus. I desire you hartily, be not gredy in sekyng after benefices. And yet if you shalbe called to any cure in the country, let the honour of God, the saluation of soules, and the trauayle therof, moue you therunto, & not hauyng of the liuyng or the commodities therof. And if you shall be placed in any such benefice, beware you haue no yong woman for your cooke or seruant, least you edifie and encrease more your house, then your soule. See that you be a builder of your spirituall house, beyng gentle to the poore, and humble of mynd: and waste not your goods in great fare. I feare also if you do not amend your lyfe, ceasing from your costly and superfluous apparell, lest you shallbe greuously chastised, as I also wretched man shall be punished, which haue vsed the lyke, MarginaliaHe repenteth his gay garmentes.beyng seduced by custome of euill men and wordely glory, wherby I haue bene wounded against God with the spirite of pryde. And because you haue notablye knowen both my preachyng, and outward conuersation euen from my youth, I haue no neede to write many thinges vnto you, but to desire you for the mercy of Iesus Christ, that you do not follow me in any such leuitie & lightnes, which you haue sene in me. You know how before my priesthood, which greueth me now, I haue delighted to play oftentimes at chesse, and haue neclected my tyme, and therby haue vnhappily prouoked bothe my selfe and other to anger many tymes, by that play. MarginaliaHe repenteth his playing at the chesse.Wherfore, besides other my innumerable faultes, for this also I desire you to inuocate the mercy of the Lord, that he will pardon me, and so to direct my life, that hauing ouercome the wickednes of this present life, the flesh the world, and the deuill, I may finde place in the heauenly countrey, at the lest in the day of iudgement. Fare you well in Chrst Iesus, with all them which keepe his law. My gray coate if you will, keepe to youre selfe for my remēbraunce: but I thinke you are ashamed to weare that gray colour: therfore you may geue it to whom you shall thinke