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Title: The hand of God in history, or, Divine providence illustrated in the extension and establishment of Christianity throughout the world
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Read, Hollis, 1802-1887
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Publisher: Philadelphia : John E. Potter & Co.
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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he finger of Providence : QueenAnne, the wife of Richard II., of England, a native ofBuhemia, having herself embraced the doctrines olWicklif, became, through her attendants, the instrumentof circulating the books of the reformer in Bohemia.Who can doubt whether she did not come to the king-dom for such a time as this. God called her to theJirone of England, that, having learned the truth there,she might introduce it, with a royal sanction, in ner ownnative land Huss and Jerome of Prague, by th.s meanscaught the fire of the English reformer, raised the ban-neis of reformation, and ceased not, till a glorious mar-tyrdom put out their lamp, to devote their great learningand their immense influence in defence of abused truth. The execution of Huss as a heretic, furnishes a justthough melancholy picture of the times of those earlyreformers. John Huss Avas Professor of Divinity in theUniversity of Prague, and pastor of the church in thatcity; a man as renowned for the purity and excellency
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BURNING OF HUSS. 75 3f his Christian character, as for his profound learningand uncommon eloquence. But his light shone too brightfor the age. He was charged with heresy ; arrested,thrown into prison—condemned to the stake. Ai theplace of execution he was treated with the most barbarousindignity. Seven Bishops strip him of his sacerdotaldress—violently tear from him the insignia of his office—put on his head a cap on which three devils were pamted.and the words arch-heretic written—burn his books Defoiehis eyes. In the meantime the fires of death are kmdled.The undaunted martyr commends his spirit to Jesus, and,serene and joyful in the prospect of a glorious immortality,his he ^)py spirit rises from the flames of wicked loes tothe bosom of flaming seraphim, who adore and burn inthe presence of the eternal throne. But this was not enough : with savage fury his execu-tioners beat down the stake, and demolished with clubsand pokers all that remained of his half consumed body.His

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