Panslavism and Germanism. By Count Valerian Kransinski [pp. 486-508]

Their Religious History.
Christ is to be given in two kinds to adults as well as children,
as instituted by Jesus Christ.
3. The priests and monks, many of whom meddle with the
affairs of the State, are to be deprived of the worldly goods
which they have in great abundance, and which cause them to
neglect their sacred office; and their goods shall be restored to
us, in order that, in accordance with the doctrine of the Gospels
and the practice of the Apostles, the clergy should be subject to
us, and living in poverty serve as a pattern of humility to
others.
4. All public sins which are called mortal, and other trespasses of the law of God, are be punished according to the laws
of the land, by those who have charge of them, without any
regard to the persons committing them, in order to wipe from
the kingdom of Bohemia the bad reputation of tolerating disorders.
The Basle fathers tried hard to inveigle the Ilussite delegates
into a doctrinal discussion, but nothing could induce the latter
to abandon, or essentially modify their original position. In
the course of the deliberations, Cesarini, one of the ablest of
the Romish doctors, found that his old antagonist Procop, was
as much his superior in the field of debate, as he had before
been on the field of battle. One one occasion the cardinal
reproached the Bohemians for holding the mendicant orders to
be an invention of the devil. "True," said Procop, "for since
they were not instituted by the patriarchs, nor by Moses, nor
the prophets, nor Christ, nor his apostles, what else can they
be but an invention of the devil and a work of darkness"-a
reply that created a general burst of laughter in the council.
After a residence at Basle of three months the delegates succeeded in getting a solemn confirmation of the Four Articles
slightly modified, which were immediately published under the
name of (,Yompactata. Sigismund was accordingly recognized
as king of Bohemia by the Catholics and Calixtins, to which
latter party most of the magnates belonged; but the Taborites
and Orphans, suspicious of the sincerity of both Emperor and
Pope-and as subsequent events showed, with good reasonrefused to receive him as their sovereign; and with Procop at
their head, they resolved to prolong the contest. There can be
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