John Huss and the Hussite Wars - James Aitken Wylie

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Roman Catholics. The Taborites remained under the command of Procopius, who, although most desirous of composing the strife and letting his country have rest, would not accept of peace on terms which he held to be fatal to his nation's faith and liberty. Bohemia, he clearly saw, had entered on the descending path. Greater concessions and deeper humiliations were before it. The enemy before whom she had begun to humble herself would not be satisfied till he had reft from her all she had won on the victorious field. Rather than witness this humiliation, Procopius betook himself once more to the field at the head of his armed Taborites. Bloody skirmishes marked the opening of the conflict. At last, the two armies met on the plain of Lipan, twelve English miles from Prague, the 29th of May, 1434, and a great battle was fought. The day, fiercely contested on both sides, was going in favor of Procopius, when the general of his cavalry rode off the field with all under his command. This decided the action. Procopius, gathering round him the bravest of his soldiers, rushed into the thick of 246
the foe, where he contended for awhile against fearful odds, but at last sank overpowered by numbers. With the fall of Procopius came the end of the Hussite wars. A consummate general, a skillful theologian, an accomplished scholar, and an incorruptible patriot, Procopius had upheld the cause of Bohemia so long as Bohemia was true to itself, AEneas Sylvius Piccolomini said of him that "he fell weary with conquering rather than conquered." His death fulfilled the saying of the Emperor Sigismund, "that the Bohemians could be overcome only by Bohemians." With him fell the cause of the Hussites. No effectual stand could the Taborites make after the loss of their great leader; and as regards the Calixtines, they riveted their chains by the same blow that struck down Procopius. Yet one hardly can wish that this great patriot had lived longer. The heroic days of Bohemia were numbered, and the evil days had come in which Procopius could take no pleasure. He had seen the Bohemians united and victorious. He had seen puissant kings and mighty armies fleeing before 247
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JOHN HUSS AND THE HUSSITE WARS Jame
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harvest. We have witnessed the grea
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Such is the link that binds togethe
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great harvest of converts; families
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Poland included; they made their he
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in the Church," and departed. The P
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Politically, too, the country of Bo
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unprepared for the tremendous strug
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theological treatises he had not se
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pastoral duties, Huss grew rapidly
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Chapter 2 Huss Begins his Warfare A
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minds of the citizens. Among those
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the virtue of the blood; but, on be
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who read the writings or taught the
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Tumult was beginning to disturb the
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solve; this was the doubt that tort
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consisting of the doctors of the un
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of his character, and all the brill
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Gregory XII., is at Rimini; Peter d
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arms," said he, as the Goths approa
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invisible Head, the Lord Jesus Chri
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to the contrast, so perfect and str
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the Roman Church as lacking foundat
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the sentence so long as John Huss s
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for Huss to do - the greatest and m
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were waging a war which raged only
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XXIII. To the Pope the idea of a Co
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delegates, some of whom were of the
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confections of Paris and London. Th
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"I see how it is," he said, "that i
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the other. He did not conceal from
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as well as his own, and heartily di
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to almost all the princes of his ag
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the ranks of the heavenly deities a
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grievous and heinous crimes," says
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victors with their acclamations. Th
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the emperor, excusing his flight by
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already been permitted to see the l
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Consider, I pray you, that they hav
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necessary to speed and assure his j
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he was conducted to the prison of t
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which he had been smitten. This req
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Huss to his trial. His two great op
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Baron de Chlum, the steady and most
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place, side by side, ineffaceably,
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vast temporal revenues of the clerg
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had broken the great bond of submis
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much to this point: would he submit
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form in which he foresaw it would c
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Chapter 7 Condemnation and Martyrdo
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Sigismund: 'Destroy heresies and er
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pieces of attire - in which in mock
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walked between four town sergeants.
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Bavaria and the Marshal of the Empi
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When the martyr bowed his head at t
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Chapter 8 Wicliffe and Huss Compare
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"Both Wicliffe and Huss held that '
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neither speculatively inclined nor
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affections of his cotemporaries, an
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Chapter 9 Trial and Temptation of J
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etter to induce him to recant. To t
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and ambition of the clergy, and the
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Christ after." One would think that
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the doubts that now darkened his so
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Chapter 10 The Trial of Jerome WHEN
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mind he sifted every accusation pre
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"When ye are brought before rulers
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I approved of the iniquitous senten
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him. He extolled the choice gifts w
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Chapter 11 Condemnation and Burning
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put the miter upon his head, accomp
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face; for had I been afraid of the
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gave their deaths a representative
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And so was it when the time drew ni
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Lord" (Acts 3:19). Such is the plac
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pain and anguish; but, on the contr
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Chapter 13 The Hussite Wars HUSS ha
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preachers of the words of our Lord
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ecclesiastical authorities when the
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which assembled Taborites and Calix
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Proclamation was made by a herald t
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Wicliffe for its preacher, and Huss
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true, this beneficence of Pope Mart
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y Lewis, Duke of Bavaria of Ingolst
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eturning to his native country, bec
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saw one who stood so high, as they
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Bohemians, "rather than it shall si
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force, were put to flight. After th
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enthusiasm. From all parts of Bohem
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Hussites, and laid siege to it. An
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was the disposal of their crown. Th
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their faith in God, whose aid would
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the first instance in history of a
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place, he called a few officers aro
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found themselves at a disadvantage;
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large round head, and aquiline nose
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took care he should receive, he had
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