That mercenary Maſſes, ſerving for Lucre, ſhould be abrogated.
That the elevation of the Hoste ſhould by degrees be cancelled.
That the conſecration of Herbes, and ſuch like ſuperſtitious rites, ſhould be forborn, &c.
And whereas likewiſe they had conſtituted Gallus Zahere, an Adminiſtrator of the Sacrament under both kinds, and paſtor at old Prague, at the Church called Læta Curia, a familiar friend to Luther, (for he had lived heretofore at Wittenburgh, and publikely extolled Luther as an excellent Inſtrument of Cod, and afterwards incited the inhabitants of Prague to write to Luther concerning the Ordination of Miniſters) the hope, indeed was great for a better condition in the Government of the Church, but it was of a ſhort continuance.
3. For not long after, this turne-coat declining, to give an occaſion of offence to King Lewes, returned again to the falſer doctrine of the Calixtines, and in the Parliament held that yearę, in the moneth of June, he began to publiſh Articles contrary to the former, and to ſolicite the renewing of the Agreement and furiouſly to perſecute the Orthodoxe Miniſters, to favour the King and Papiſts, and that on this occaſion.
4. The Pope underſtanding how the affairs were carried as well in Bohemia as Germany, ſent a Legate
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