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 all the copies of Gregory’s Morals they could lay their hands on, and Chrysostom was condemned for heresy by two councils and yet he was afterward exonerated.

The same treatment, burning in the flames, continued long after Huss’s death to be prescribed by the authorities for unwelcome publications. The custom held on well. Even in New England, by the order of the Massachusetts legislature, one of the very first theological books produced on our soil, William Pynchon’s The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption, was burned, 1650.

To the charges brought against him by the council, Huss replied on July 1 in a formal confession written with his own hand, repeating that it was his purpose not to recant. It runs thus:

Writing to his friends, he had reiterated again and again that he had not recalled or recanted a single one of the articles. He pronounced them shameless and trumped up against him by false witnesses. Although some of them were