and their Councils Abridged, 43; '29. üniverlities, Studies,Colledges, Degrees, and Mafterfhips in them, are introduced by vainGentility, and profit the Church as much as the ` Devil doth. `3o. The Excommunication of a Pope, or any Prelate, is not to be `feared, becaufe it is the Cenfure of Antichrifl. 31. They that found Cloyfters fin, and they are Diabolical that enter them. `32. To enrich the Clergy is againfl Chrifis Rule. '33. Pope Sylvefter, and the Emperour Conftantine, erred in inriching the Church. `34. All the Order ofBegging Fryars are Hcreticks; and thofe that give ` to them are Excommunicate. 35. They that enter Religion (as Fryars) or any Order (of them) are ' thereby difabled from keeping Gods Commands, and fo of coming to ` Heaven, unlefs they forfake them. ' 36. The Pope, and all his Clergy that have Poffeffions, are thereforeHe- ' reticks, and the Secular Lords and Laicks that confent to them (to their ' great riches.) 37. The Church of Rome is the Synagogueof Satan ; and the Pope is not the immediateand nearefi Vicar ofChrift and the Apofiles. ` 38. The Decretal Epifiles are Apocryphal, and feduce from the Faith 'of Chft, and the Clerksthat fludy themare fools. 39 The Emperour and Secular Lords were feduced by the Devil Loin- ` rich the Church (excefvely he meaneth) with temporal goods. ` 40. The Eleéìion of the Pope by Cardinals was introduced by the `Devil. 41. It is not neceffary to Salvation to believe the Churchof Borne to ` be the Supreme amongother Churches. ` 42. It is foolifh to trufl to the Indulgences of the Pope and Bithops. `43. Oaths made to tlrengthenhumane Contrafts and Civil Commerce, are unlawful. ` 44. Auguftine, Benediil, Bernard are damned, unlefs they repented ofha- 'vingpoffefions, and inflituting and entering (private) Religions; and fo `from the Pope to the lowefl Religious (Fryar) they are all Hereticks. `45. All Religions (that is Orders of Fryars) were introduced by the Devil. This Article about Neceffity of Events, I fee in Wìckjiff's Books is his own, and many here cited are true ; but no doubt but many of them are perverted by their wording them, and leaving out the Explicatory Con- text. TheCouncil forbad his Books, and condemned them to be burnt, and reprobated every one of all thofe forefaìd Articles, with all the 26o. The Duke of Arr(lria moft humbly begged the Emperours pardon for re- ceiving the Pope. §. 7. Sefi.9. The Citation of the Pope is read, and Commiffaries and K k k k Judges
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