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1568, Morillon wrote that he found him greatly changed.
Baius was complaining that he had been condemned without
being heard ; he maintained that some of the condemned
propositions were not to be found in his books, while others
were wrongly stated ; that points had been decided which
hitherto had been open, and that it might well be that some
day he would write a book against the bull.^ Morillon did
not fail to reply to this, and advised him specially to refrain
from publishing anything against the bull, because neither
the Pope nor the king would suffer it, and that Baius would
only do himself harm by so acting.^ Baius then calmed down,
and at last gave a clear assurance that it was his intention
to persevere in obedience to the Pope ;
Morillon must excuse
his irritation on account of the great pain which the Pope's
condemnation had given him, which had been aggravated by
his enemies' refusal to keep silence. It was true that Tiletanus
had sent the bull to the Bishop of Ypres, the University of
Douai, and to several monasteries.^
In spite of all his promises, however, Baius tried to defend
the condemned propositions in writing. On January 9th,
1569, he sent an apologia to the Pope, in which he acknowledged
30 of the propositions which had been condemned in
Rome, but maintained that they contained nothing but what
had been taught in the Holy Scriptures and by the Fathers of
the Church. In a covering letter he said that the honour of
the Pope had suffered by the buU being published so widely,
firstly because of the obvious calumnies which it contained,
and secondly because it was opposed to the words and ideas
of the Fathers of the Church. It was a scandal to many
learned men in the north, who on account of their struggle
with the heretics were wont to lean more upon the teaching
of the Sacred Scriptures and the Fathers than were the
medieval theologians, and who might get the idea that zeal
for scholasticism had led to the condemnation of the Fathers
1 Morillon to Granvelle, June 20, 1568, in Poullet, III., 278.
^ Ibid. 279.
=> Ibid. 280.