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LETTER XXX.^[1]

 

TO HIS NOBLE BENEFACTORS.

 

[This letter teaches us in what consists the trial of spiritual combats; it shews how true is what we confess in the Creed, that there is but one holy and universal Church,^[2] and that the riches of this Church are common to all. Man is for his fellow-creature, an angel and a God in misfortunes.]

 

I am delighted that the treatise against an unknown person has not been discovered, as well as several others. I have been able these latter days to nourish my soul with better things,^[3] than since Easter day until last Sunday. I imagined this Council to contain more order and decency. May the noble John, my friend, be blessed in eternity. I should with pleasure learn in what state is Barbat, who refused to follow the counsels of his friends.

Since they are in possession of my book, I have not felt any want of the work. Preserve carefully the list of the first articles, with the proofs; and if you should

 

1. Hist. et. Monum. Johann. Huss, Epist. xxxvii.
2. Catholicism.
3. De bonis plus comedi. I did not think it possible to understand these words but in a figurative manner.