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53 Utraquist Church and its controversial archbishop, John Rokycana. Many letters were exchanged between these two men. In another place we spoke of Rokycana's mediation between Chelc̄icky̍ and a group of young reformists." But Rokycana gradually became more and more what we might call a "high-church" man, with Romanist leanings. This in the end alienated him from Chelc̄icky̍ who wrote a sharp polemical, (A Reply to Rokycana).

There followed other works, all of a polemical nature against the Utraquist doctrines and practices. Just as ten years before, his    signified a rupture with the Taborites, so now the  to Archbishop Rokycana symbolizes the severance with the Utraquists. Both stand as milestones on the road of his development, which points away from the doctrinarian strife and sacerdotalism of the Hussite factions, and toward a life of more abundant Christian expression.

p.42f.

Written A.D.1434.

Especially, (About the Seven Sacraments).