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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...

questions which had seemed to be forever settled before Boniface issued his bull. The discussions were participated in by a class of men of whom Konrad of Gelnhausen was one of the very first, and by Wyclif followed by Huss who constitute a much more advanced group. The opinions of the former group found expression in the Reformatory councils, notably the council of Constance. The opinions of the latter involved an ecclesiastical revolution and led straight forward to the Protestant Reformation.
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