Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XII. JOHN HUS AS A WRITER IN HIS NATIVE LANGUAGE. The collected Latin writings of John Hus have been long before the world, although the collection is by no means perfect, but errs both on the side of excess and on that of defect. But his writings in his native Bohemian tongue were collected and many of them printed for the first time in three volumes, edited by the late K. J. Erben, Archivarius of the Old Town of Prague, and published in the years 1865, 1866, and 1868. We can now know this extraordinary man, not only as a school divine and as a controversionalist among theologians, but as a living and moving power in his own country, addressing his brethren and speaking to their hearts in their own native tongue. The first work that meets the eye in the first volume consists of longer and shorter expositions of the creed, the ten commandments, and the Lord's prayer. Hus introduces the treatise and gives his reasons for writing it in the following words: -- "Every Christian who possesses understanding, if he wishes to be saved, must fulfil God's law and pray to God. With respect to the first, the Saviour said: ' He that believeth shall be saved, and he that believeth not shall be damned.' With respect to the second he says: 'If thou wilt enter into life keep the commandments.' With respect to the third he saith: 'Men ought to pray.' Since these things are thus necessary to a man for eternal life, it is good that he should become acquainted with them; that, being acquainted with them, he should understand them, and that, understanding them, he should fulfil them in practice. And since without faith it is impossible to please God, St. Paul saith: 'With the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is...
