The Life And Times of John Huss Or the Bohemian Reformation of the Fifteenth Ce
The Life And Times of John Huss Or the Bohemian Reformation of the Fifteenth Ce
Gillett, E. H. (Ezra Hall), 1823-1875
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In behalf of the council, the patriarch of Antioch presented it, humbly supplicating for it a gracious reception. Ob jectionable as this new form of abdication, armed with oaths, must have been to the pope, and difficult as he found it altogether to conceal his vexation, there was no alternative but to accept it. Having glanced over the form presented, he replied that it had ever been his intention to restore peace to the church, and that for this purpose he had come to Constance. He added, mor...eover, that he had already offered to cede his pontificate ; that he had done it freely, of his own accord and without restraint, and that he never had been of any other mind. He then read aloud the form of abdication, which had been carefully drawn up by the council in order to cut off any opportunity of evading its conditions : " I, Pope John XXIII. , for the welfare of all Chris tendom, profess, engage, and promise, swear and vow 424 LIFE AND TIMES OF JOHN HUSS. [Cn. XVI. to God, the church, and this holy council, voluntarily and freely to give peace to the church itself, by the way of an unqualified cession of my pontificate ; and that I will effectually perform and execute it in ac cordance with the deliberative decisions of the pres ent council, if and when Peter de Luna, Benedict XIII.
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