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APPARENT END OF BAIANISM. 375
The letter to Morillon, in which Granvelle gave him full
instructions on all these matters, was fated to come under the
notice of Baius himself. In another letter, also addressed
to Morillon, Granvelle expressed his fears for the future,
because learned men like Baius have a love for their books
like the love of a father for his son. He takes the opportunity
of urging all possible gentleness in the execution of the bull.^
At first it seemed as though Granvelle's fears would not be
justified. On December 2gth, 1567, Morillon informed the
dean and the eight professors of theology of the bull, and all
of them, not excepting Baius himself, declared their readiness
to submit to it.^ The commissary of the Flemish province
of the Franciscans also received orders to forbid to his subjects
the use of the condemned propositions.^ The Franciscans
obeyed,^ and in 1568 Cornehus Janssen the elder. Bishop of
Ghent, bore witness concerning Baius that he considered him
a man worthy of all respect, who said mass every day and was
definitely opposed to the sectarians ; that as a teacher he
was as capable as could be desired, while in his lectures he
never touched upon his new doctrines, nor had he acted
otherwise for three years previous to the Papal condemnation ;
Janssen adds that he would never have thought it possible
that the new doctrines should have disappeared so completely ;
in the schools there is as Uttle thought of them as if they had
never existed, while Baius himself, when there had been a
question of putting them forward once more, would not agree
to do so. Among some of the most learned graduates they
are now held in as great horror as once. they were esteemed.^
Baianism thus seemed to be dead, but this was only in
appearance. Baius did not abide by his first resolution of
simple obedience to the decision of the Church. In June,
^ Granvelle to Morillon, November 13, 1567, ibid. 104 seq.
^ Le Bachelet, II., 49. Morillon wrote to Granvelle on
December 21, 1567, that he would have Baius brought before him
on the following day. Poullet, III., 153.
^ Morillon to Granvelle, January 11, 1568, in Poullet, III., 169.
* Morillon to Granvelle, June 20, 1568, ibid. 282.
^ Ibid. 281.