to be called to judgment beyond a certain number; Pope Martin undoeth the acts and edicts of all other popes.or else any other edict, indulgence, privilege, or exemption general or special, granted from the apostolic see, for any person or persons not to he interdicted, suspended, or excommunicated, or cited up to judgment without the compass of certain limits; or else whatsover thing otherwise may hinder, stop, or impeach your jurisdiction, power, too weak and free proceeding herein by any means to the contrary notwithstanding.
Given at Constance, the first year of our popedom.
This bloody and abominable commission of pope Martin, which I have copied out of a certain old monument remaining in the hands of Master Hackluyt, student in the Temple, seemeth to be directed and given out for the public destruction of all faithful christian men, about the latter end and breaking up of the council of Constance, A. D. 1418; Note how Antichrist rageth and riseth against Christ.by which the prudent reader hath this to note and consider: what labour, what policy, what counsel, and what laws have been set, what ways have been taken, what severity hath been showed, how men's power, wit, and the authority of the whole world, have conspired together from time to time, continually, by all manner of means, to subvert and supplant the word and way of the Lord; and yet, notwithstanding, man hath not prevailed, but all his force and devised policies have been overthrown, dispatched, and, with the counsel of Ahithophel and Ammon, have been brought to nought; and, contrary to the fury of the world, the gospel of Christ hath still increased. Man's power and councel too weak against Christ.Neither yet for all this will the pope cease to spurn and rebel still against the kingdom of Christ and his gospel, against which neither he, nor yet the gates of hell, shall ever prevail. The Lord of hosts be merciful to his poor persecuted flock! Amen.
Against this pestilent bull and inquisition of pope Martin, the great Antichrist, I thought good here to adjoin and annex another contrary writing of the Bohemians, bearing the name and subscription of Procopius, Conrad, and other captains of the Bohemians; which seemeth, not long after the death of Zisca, to be written against the pestiferous see of Rome; the tenor whereof here followeth.
A Fruitful and Christian Exhortation of the Bohemians, to Kings and Princes, to stir them up to the zeal of the Gospel.
