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who will not obey, the same process to be made against them, as against the favourers and maintainers of heresies. And this most holy synod hath caused the said forty-five articles to be examined, and oftentimes perused, by many most reverend fathers of the church of Rome, cardinals, bishops, abbots, masters of divinity, and doctors of both laws, besides a great number of other learned men; which articles being so examined, it was found (as in truth it was no less) that many, yea and a great number of them be notoriously, for heretical, reproved and condemned by the holy fathers; others not to be catholic, but erroneous; some full of offence and blasphemy; certain of them offensive unto godly ears, and many of them to be rashful and seditious. It is found, also, that his books do contain many articles of like effect and quality, and that they do induce and bring into the church unsound and unwholesome doctrine, contrary unto the faith and ordinance of the churchWherefore, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, this sacred synod, ratifying and approving the sentences and judgments of the archbishops and council of Rome, do, by this their decree and ordinance perpetually, for evermore, condemn and reprove the said articles, and every one of them, his books which he entitled his "Dialogue" and "Trialogue," and all other books of the same author, volumes, treatises, and works, by what name soever they be entitled or called, which we will here to be sufficiently expressed and named. Also, we forbid the reading, learning, exposition, or alleging of any of the said books unto all faithful Christians, but so far forth as shall tend to the reproof of the same; forbidding all and singular catholic persons, under the pain of curse, that from henceforth they be not so hardy openly to preach, teach, or hold, or by any means to allege the said articles, or any of them, except, as is aforesaid, that it do tend unto the reproof of them; commanding all those books, treatises, works, and volumes aforesaid, to be openly burned, as it was decreed in the synod at Rome, as is before expressed: for the execution whereof duly to be observed and done, the said sacred synod doth straitly charge and command the ordinaries of the place diligently to attend and look to the matter, according as it appertaineth to every man's duty by the canonical laws and ordinances.

What these articles were, here condemned by the council, collected out of all his works, and exhibited to that council, to the number of forty-five, the copy of them declareth.

.—Besides the twenty-four articles, there were others also gathered out of his books, to the number of forty-five, which his malicious adversaries, perversely collecting, and maliciously expounding, did exhibit to the council of Constance; all which to repeat, though it be not here needful, yet to recite certain of them as they stand in that council, it shall not be superfluous.

25. All such as be hired for temporal living to pray for others, offend, and sin of simony.

26. The prayer of a reprobate prevaileth for no man.

27. All things happen from absolute necessity.