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Of the writings of John Huss of Bohemia, The Church is the most important. From its pages, the charges were drawn upon which the author was pronounced a heretic by the Council of Constance and—the same day, July 6, 1415—burned at the stake. Huss found the principles set forth in this treatise in the writings of Wycliffe. The main principles are shared with Wycliffe, and Huss and Wycliffe use many...

is not the bond of Christian unity, and nowhere does he represent the sacraments as the bond of unity. Following Augustine, Huss proceeds to show that the church is a mixed body, made up of predestinate and prœsciti, or reprobate, and he uses the parable of the net and other parables to prove it. Although according to the popular opinion—vocationem vulgarem et reputationem ecclesiasticam—all Christians are members of the church militant, yet it is one thing, Huss affirmed, to be in the church and
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