lickly, to oppoſe thoſe publicke ſins. And indeed ſo long as he ſhot his darts againſt ſecular men, he was highly eſteemed off amongſt the Divines, as one out of whoſe mouth the Holy Ghoſt ſpake: but as ſoone as he began to thunder againſt them alſo, their minds being altered, they cryed out that he was mad, and the Devils Agent.
3. Thoſe that write of him tell us, that the firſt complaints againſt him, were put up by certain of the Nobles unto the King (to wit, Wenceslaus) whom the Pope preſented unto the German Princes, as a ſluggiſh perſon unprofitable unto the Empire, hateful (yet not infamous in Hiſtoryes) becauſe of his unwillingneſs to execute his Buls, and his indulging the Hereticks, againſt his will) and required him to forbid Huſſe of his turbulent preaching. But the Arch-Biſhop (Wolbrom) denyed that it could be done, becauſe Huſſe had bound himſelf by Oath at his Ordination, to ſpeak the truth without reſpect of perſons.
4. But when in the year following, this ſame Huſſe much thore ſharply reproved the Coveteouſneſs, Luxury, and Sacriledges of Spirituall perſons & the Arch-biſhop, requeſted of the King the ſame which the Nobles did before. The King anſwered that it could not poſſibly be done, becauſe Huſſe was obliged by oath to ſpeak the truth without reſpect of perſons; the Lord himſelf thus fruſtrating the wicked plots contrived againſt this holy man, as his own Inſtrument.
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