communication pretendeth to the contrary. The aunswere. My wordes are these: For so muche as it doth appeare by that which is aforesayd, that whosoeuer commeth, or is admitted vnto the ministery, receiueth also by especiall commaundement, the office of preaching he ought to fulfill that commaundement, any excommunication to the contrary pretended notwithstanding. MarginaliaA minister once admitted is more bounde to preach: then to doe any other work of mercy, the popes prohibitiō notwithstanding.Also no Christian ought to doubte but that a man sufficientlye instructed in learning, is more bound to counsel and instruct the ignoraunt, to teach those which are in doubt, to chastise those which are vnruly, and to remitte and forgeue those that do him iniury, then for to to any other works of mercy. For so much then as he that is rich and hath sufficient, is bounden vnder the payne of damnation to minister and geue comporall and bodely almes, as appeareth in the 25. chapter of Mathew: how much more is he bound to doe spirituall almes?

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Marginalia25.The 25. Article. The Ecclesiasticall censures are Antichristian, such as the clergy hath inuented for theyr owne preferment, and for the bondage and seuitude of the common people. Whereby if the Laity be not obedient vnto the Clergy at theyr will and pleasure, it doth multiplye theyr couetousnesse,MarginaliaCensures of the Popes Churche, multiplyeth the Popes couetousnes defendeth theyr malice, and prepareth a way for Antichrist. Whereby it is an euident signe and token, that such censures proceede from Antichrist, the which censures in theyr processes they do call Fulminations or lightninges, whereby the Clergy doth chiefly proceede agaynst such as doe manifest and open the wickednesse of Antichrist, which thrust themselues into the office of the Clergye. These thinges are conteined in the last chapter of his treatise of the Church. I aunswere, and I deny that it is in that forme. But the matter therof is largely handled in the 23. chapter. And in the examination of the audience, they haue gathered certayne clauses most contrary thereunto. The which when they had reade, the Cardinall of Cambray renewed his old song, saying: truly these are much more greeuous and offensiue, then the Articles which are gathered.

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Marginalia26.The 26. Article. There ought no interditement to be appoynted vnto the people, for so much as Christ the high Byshoppe, neither for Iohn Baptist, neither for any iniury that was done vnto him did make any interditement. My wordes are these: When as I complayned, that for one Ministers sake, an Interditement was geuen out, and thereby all good men ceased from the laude and prayse of God. MarginaliaChrist interdited none, but prayed for all.And Christ the high Byshoppe, notwithstanding that the Prophette was taken and kept in prison, then whome there was no greater amongest the children of men, did not geue out any curse or interditement, no not when as Herode beheaded him, neither when he himselfe was spoyled, beaten, and blasphemed of the Souldiours, Scribes and Pharisies, he did not then curse them, but prayed for them, and taught his Disciples to doe the same, as it appeareth in the fift chapter of Saynt Mathew. And Christes first Vicare folowing the same doctrine and learning, sayth in his first Epistle of Saynt Peter and the second chapter:Marginalia1. Pet. 2. Hereunto are ye called: For Christ hath suffered for vs, leauing vs an example that we should follow his footsteppes, who when he was cursed and euill spoken of did not curse agayne. And Saynt Paule following the same order and way in the xij. chapter of the Romaynes, sayth:MarginaliaRom. 12. blesse them that persecute you. There were besides these many other places of scripture recited in that booke, but they being omitted, these were onely rehearsed, whiche did helpe or preuayle to styrre vppe or mooue the iudges mindes.

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And these are the Articles were were alledged out of I. Hus his booke intituled Of the Church.

Other Articles moreouer out of other his bookes were collected, & forced agaynst him, first out of his treatise written agaynst Steuen Paletz, to the number of 7. Articles. Also 6. other Articles strayned out of his treatise agaynste Stanislaus Znoyma. Wherunto his aunsweres likewise be adioyned, not vnfruitfull to be read.

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Articles drawen out of the treatise written against Steuen Palletz.

THe first Article. If the Pope, Byshop, or Prelate, be in deadly sinne, he is then no Pope, Byshoppe, nor Prelate. The aunswere, I graunt thereunto, and I send you vnto Saynt Augustine, Ierome, Chrisostome, Gregory, Cyprian, and Bernarde, the which doe say, moreouer thatwhosoeuer is in deadly sinne, is no true Christian, howe much lesse then is he Pope, or Byshop, of whom it is spoken by the Prophet Amos in his 8. chapter. They haue raigned and ruled and not through me, they became Princes, and I knew them not. &c. But afterward I doe graūt that a wicked Pope, Byshop, or Priest, is an vnworthye minister of the Sacrament, by whom God doth baptise, consecrate, or otherwise worke to the profit of his Church, and this is largely handled in the text of the booke by the authorityes of the holy Doctours, for euen he which is in deadly sinne is not worthely a kyng before God, as it appeareth in the first booke of kynges 15. chapter. Where as God sayth vnto Saule by the Prophet Samuel, sayinge: for so muche as thou hast refused and cast of my worde, I will also refuse and cast thee off, that thou shalt be no more King. Whiles these thinges were thus intreating, the Emperour looking out at a certayne window of the cloyster, accompanyed with the Countye Palentine, and the Burgraue of Norenberg, conferring and talking much of Iohn Hus. At lēgth he sayd, MarginaliaThe Emperours iudgement of I. Hus.that there was neuer a worse or more pernitious hereticke then he. In the meane while when Iohn Hus had spoken these wordes, as touchinge the vnworthy king, by and by the Emperour was called, and he was commaunded to repeat those wordes agayne, which after that he had done, his duety therein being considered, the Emperour aunswered, no man sayth he, doth liue without faulte, then the Cardinall of Cambray,MarginaliaThe Cardinall of Cambray. being in a great fury sayd: is it not enough for thee that thou doest contemne and despise the Ecclesiastical state, and goest about by the writinges and doctrine to perturbe and trouble the same, but that now also thou wilt attempte to throw kinges out of theyr state and dignity? Thē Paletz began to alleadge the lawes whereby he would proue that Saule was king, euen when those words were spoken by Samuel, and therefore that Dauid did forbidde that Saul should not be slayne, nor for the holynesse of his life, the which there was none in him, but for the holynesse of hys annoynting. And when as Iohn Hus repeated out of S. Cyprian, that he did take vpon him the name of Christianity in vayne which did not followe Christ in his liuing, Paletz aunswered, beholde and see what a folly is in thys man which alleadgeth those thinges which make nothing for the purpose, for albeit any man be not a true Christian, is he not therefore true Pope, Byshop, or Kyng? When as these are names of office and to be a Christian is a name of merite and desert, and so may any man be a true pope, Byshoppe, or King, although he be no true Christian. Then sayd Iohn Hus, If Pope Iohn the xxiij. were a true Pope, wherefore haue ye depriued him of hys office? The Emperonr aunswered, the Lordes of the Councell haue now lately agreed thereupon that he was true Pope, but for his notorious and manifest euill doinges wherewithall, he did offend and trouble the Church of God, and dyd spoyle and bring to ruine the power thereof, he is reiected and cast out of his office.

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Marginalia2.The second Article. The grace of predestination is the bond whereby the body of the Church and euery parte and member thereof is firmely knitte and ioyned vnto the head. The aunswere. I acknowledge this Article to be mine, and it is proued in the text out of the eight chapiter to the Romaynes, who shall seperate vs from the charity and loue of Christ. &c. And in the tenth chapter of Iohn, My sheepe heare my voyce, and I know them, and they followe me, and I geue them eternall life, neyther shall they perish eternally, neither is there any man which shal take them out of my handes. This is the knotte of the body of the Church, and of our spirituall head Christ, vnderstanding the Church to be the congregation of the predestinate.

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Marginalia3.The third Article. If the Pope be a wicked man, and specially a reprobate, then euen as Iudas the Apostle, he is a Deuill, a Theefe, and the Sonne of perdition, and not the head of the holy mylytant Churche, for so muche as he is no parte or member thereof. The aunswere. My wordes are thus, if the Pope be an euill or wicked man, and specially if he be a Reprobate, then euen as Iudas, so is he a Deuill, a Theefe, and the Sonne of perdition. How then is he the head of the holy militant Church? Where as he is not truely no member or part thereof, for if he were a member of the holy Churche, then shoulde he be also a member of Christ, and if he were a member of Christ, then shoulde he cleaue and sticke vnto Chryste by the grace of Predestination and present iustice, and shoulde be one spirite with God, as the Apostle sayth in the first Epistle to the Corinthians, the sixt Chapter: knowe ye not that your bodyes are the members of Christ?

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