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opinions propounded in tliem, and he made a vow after read-ing them, that he would disseminate their truth as far as hisstrength would allow him. He accordingly proceeded not onlyto translate the books into the language of the country, butto promulgate the doctrines contained in them, botli in hisphilosophical theses and in his discourses frora the pulpit—atonce teaching and prcaching that the Pope was Antichrist,and denouncing the vices of the Romish Church and clergywith a vehemence worthy of Wycliffe himself.

Numerous partisans collected themselves round about theheterodox professor, and adopted the name of "Hussites"—their principal tenets being a denunciation of the authorityof the Pope, the futility of indulgences and excommunication,and the profanity of purgatory and the worsbip of the Virginand the Saints; but above all, insisting upon the administrationofthe Sacrament with the cup as well as the wafer — a doc-trine which gave to the sect the name also of " Cup-ites,"or " Callixtenes;" for such was their zeal for this particularprinciple, that they had the sign of the cup painted in theirchapels, in their houses, and on their banners.

For a time the patronage of the Queen Sophia of Bohemiaprotected Huss, if not from molestation, at least from personalinjury. But his intrepidity at length provoked the anger ofthe Archbishop of Prague and many of the Bohemian clergy,so that the prelate ordered the translations of Wycliffe to beburnt; whereupon upwards of 200 volumes, magnificentlyadorned (such was the estimation in which the English Re-former was held (were committed, we are told, to the fiames,while Huss himself was suspended from his office as a priest,and forced to resign the Rectorship of the University.

He still, however, continued to preach, with even greatervehemence than before, against the Pope as Antichrist—against transubstantiation, as a vain conceit—and against