and their Comas Abridged. 441 phonfur Kingof4,4rragon.; .the Cityof Prenefte.beutterly deftroyed, as rebeI- lious : The Council at 13411 frightened hull; but Sigifmund dying, and Al- bert D. of A4,$ria chofen Emperrar, hevent;tred tocall it away to Ferraria Joh. Pateolog«A contrived thither, infalfe hope of fuccour from the WO, put ,fome Reputation on his Council : The Plague drove them to Florence; there the pretended Reconciliationof the Greek! and Latines was made, of which many ,Fliftories ,fpeak at large, efpeciaily the Greek, Edition.of that Flor. Council. The Wars 1äl1 continued round about him: The .Council atBaftl depofedEugenivs, and made Amodeus D. of Savoy (aPious man) Pope, calledFaux 5. Eugenia held on and yieldednot ; Blood and Murders frill filling Italy : He diedaged64. ,Ae. 1447. making raft ;twenty feven Cardinals, &c. 4).24. CCCCLXXII. This great Council at Bald began i 4.3z. and end - ed .z4.42. theHiftory of it is too large to be much recited. The Bohemians exafperated by the burning of their Teachers, and the Popes Eacommeonicationr, and the Decrees to burn them, defended themfelves by Aims under Zife:r, and were ufually viétorious: They were therefore invited to the Synod, which they received with tears of joy ; but for the fake of the cafeof .Hufr andHierome, durit not troll their fafe ConduL`f, till after the protnife of ma- ny Princes, and the Synod. They fent fifteen ; the Bohemians four daies pleaded their four Articles : ` t. For the Sacrament in both kinds. 2. For `corrFfting andeliminating publickfins, or crimes. 3. For liberty to preach Godsword. 4. Of the Civil Power of the Clergy. yob. Ragtifinus anfwered thehill,calling them Hereticks ; and others te- dipuily (manydaies upon one point) anfwered the ref}; and difpute begat difpute, and fo fome motioned a reconciling Conference: But they could not agree, and the Bohemians returned, and the Council fent many of their Members with them to Prague, whom the City received civilly, and heard them, exhorting them to their Opinions ; but they ftill,defred fa- tisfarLion intheir fourArticles. Many Debates there were, and by explica- tion of the terms they carne to underftand each other, and a fair beginning of reconciliationwas made; but the ftrft Article of the Sacrament in both r kinds thick fo, that they could not get over it, though theCouncil confef- fed that they had power to difpente in it. But though there be reafon e- nough for all their requefts (for the oppofing publick wickednefs, for leave to preach Gods Word, andfor Church-mens forbearing Civil coercive Go- vernment, unlefs made the Magiftrates Officers) yet fuch realonable things are hardlier obtained than more difputable matters; becaufe flefh and blood, worldly intereft, and the Devil, is moil againft them : .And of this great famous Council of Bifhops, after Petitions , and franc good words, and hopeful approaches, they could never one of them be obtained, but tricks weredevifed to elude their hopes, and inconveniences pleaded that would follow fuch Coned-lions ; ( the ordinary way of the carnal,clergies hin- dering Reformation.) 4.25. The fait Seflion being for introduEtion, to Phew their lawfulnefs, L 111 a in
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