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175* their own Christian ranks and to defend their rights by force. It is one thing to teach Christians to be subject to foreign powers in reasonable matters, and it is another thing to rule and to appoint princes contrary to other princes.

(:The princes are committing a great sin if they twist the teaching of Jesus and his apostles in order to perpetuate pagan evils,:) to persecute the Christians for faith, to keep them in prison for faith, to execute them in the name of faith. (:Some of the executed men were saints, and often the princes-executioners were the worst criminals.:)

It was the same cruel pagan authority, filled with many stings, hiding true Christian religion behind a mock-faith, that caused suffering and martyrdom to the real faithful ones, to the faithful Hus and Jerome; the King of Hungary thus caused by his own hands, that they should attain heavenly glory.

Perhaps Jakoubek of Str̄i̍bro.

Jerome of Prague, a learned and eloquent champion of Wyclif's teachings, and a personal friend of John Hus, was burned in Constance as a heretic, on May 30, 1416. (John Hus was executed on July 6, 1415).

Emperor Sigismund ( 1419–1437)

Jerome of Prague, a learned and eloquent champion of Wyclif's teachings, and a personal friend of John Hus, was burned in Constance as a heretic, on May 30, 1416. (John Hus was executed on July 6, 1415).

Emperor Sigismund ( 1419–1437)