Church; they have torn out the heart of the Church; they have dried up the inexhaustible fountain of the Church; they have violated and destroyed the imperishable refuge of the Church, where every Christian should find a refuge!
May God pardon Stanislaus, Paletz, and their brethren; for they thus designated the Pope in the sentence which they rendered by the mouth of Stanislaus.[1] ***** And now Christendom is without a Pope; it has Jesus Christ for the Head, who directs it—for the heart that vivifies it by grace—for the fountain which waters it with the seven gifts of the Holy Ghost—for the imperishable and never-failing refuge, to which I have recourse in my misfortune, in the firm hope that there I shall always find direction, assistance, and an all-sufficient regeneration, and that God will fill me with infinite joy, by delivering me from my sins, and from this miserable life!
The Council erred several times in erroneously rejecting some articles from my books, as tainted with corruption, and mutilating several passages, as will be seen on comparing these articles with my books. It is there evident to both of us that Jesus Christ, the infallible Judge, will not sanction all that has been done and said at this Council. Happy, then, are they who,
- ↑ John Huss repeats again here what he had previously said relative to the Pope. We omit it as superfluous.
