Page:A history of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages, volume 2.djvu/382

 366 GERMANY. dons none who seek him, and though they ^-^ -J^Jg^^^^^^^^^^^ baT,tism God himself baptizes them spiritually m the suttermgs oi theSh agony. In the same spirit they refused to denounce the heret c to hlan justice for fear of anticipating divine justice; S could tolerate^im in the world as long as God saw fit o do so Yet they had one saving principle which preserved them ^om the temporal and spiritual consequences of the-rrors giv^ inff us a valuable insight into the relations between the Church and heresy While denouncing in the strongest language the cor- ^ptfonTand worldliness of the establishment, they professed the Zl ;:plicit obedience to Rome, and much -Id be ov^l.^^ or pardoned so long as the supremacy of the Holy ^^^^^^°^ cIuTn question. When, in June, 1377, the Friend of God in the Oberland was inspired to visit, with a comrade, Gregory XL, Ind watn Hm of the Lgers which threatened C^^^^o^^y^ spoke to him with the utmost freedom, and though he f ^f.^^ angered, he finally recognized in them the envoys of the Holy cStand honorld them greatly, urging them to -ume then- abandoned design of founding a great ^-f^-^^l^jtl Grefforv was relentless in the extermination of Waldenses Jieg hS L the remnants of the Cathari, but ^^^es^ nettling to ob^ iect to in the mysticism and iUummism of his visitors. He ma ':^ln take offence when they threatened him with dea h w th^ in the twelvemonth if he did not reform the Church. In effect he died »28, 1378; but, if we may believe Gerson, his dying tJrets were not that he had neglected these warnings, but that bv toolredulously listening to the visions of male and female pL rets he had p'aved thelay for the ^-t Jhism .^^^^^^ foresaw would break out when he was removed from the scene. TfTer tMs hasty review of the more orthodox developments of nivstitm we ly return to the history of the Brethren o the ZesTrit who maintained the pantheistic doctrine m all ite crulity anddidnot^hrinkfrom^^ ^ow- 347.-Nider Form.car. ni. ^-^^r on. de K ^^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ There is notMng ™P™''^"^ '" ^'j^^™;" Apocalyptic inspiration was Friends of God in the. -terv.ew jth Gre o y. P^ JP^^^,^^;„, ,, Siena, common at the period, and St. Birgitt^ oi ow ,u„essors of St. Peter, were not particularly reticent in their language to the successors