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and send them to Bohemia with precaution, lest they may place many persons in danger. Keep me in remembrance, should you not receive news from me again; and pray to God that he may bestow constancy on me and Jerome, my brother in Christ; for I believe, as I understood from the deputies, that he will suffer death with me.

 

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LETTER XLVI.^[1]

 

TO HIS FRIENDS.

 

[Last resolution of John Huss, to which, with the grace of God, he desires to remain faithful.]^[2]

 

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These are the things which the Council has often required of me; but they imply that I revoke, that I abjure, and that I accept a penance; and I cannot do it, without denying, in many things, the truth. In the second place, I should perjure myself in abjuring and confessing errors falsely imputed to me. In the third place, I should afford a great scandal to the people of

 

1. Hist. et Monum. Johann. Huss, Epist. xlv.
2. This letter, such as it has reached us, is, without doubt, only a fragment; the first words indicate as much.