Chap. XXVIII.
IN the mean time, God had ſtirred up in Germany couragious Luther, the Thunder-bolt againſt the Pope, at which many of the Calixtines in Bohemia being awakened, reſolved to imbrace the purer Doctrine of the Goſpell, and to ſeeke for the Ordination of their Miniſters, rather at Wittenberge then at Rome; but the Devill interpoſed and made wonderfull obſtructions,
2. For when in the yeare 1523, in the moneth of January, the States of Bohemia, and Moravia being in a great number aſſembled at Prague, the Paſtors alſo of the Church being called, amongſt whom were of Moravia, Paulus Speratus (afterwards burned at Aumitz, by the commandement of the Biſhop) and Benedist Optatus, Wenceſlaus Litomiſlius, Doctor of Divinity, and Iohn Charpe, Orthodox men, who propounded to the Regent Matters of the Univerſity, twenty Articles, which were as it (were) the forerunners of Reformation, amongſt which, theſe were obſervable.
That if any man ſhould teach the Goſpell without the Additions of men, he ſhould neither be reproved, nor condemned for an Heretick.
