# Notice Concerning The Followers Of John Huss, Who, According To The Accounts Of Jacob Mehrning, Were Very Different From Their Leader.

15th century (source section) · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: NOTICE CONCERNING THE FOLLOWERS OF JOHN HUSS, WHO, ACCORDING TO THE ACCOUNTS OF JACOB MEHRNING, WERE VERY DIFFERENT FROM THEIR LEADER.

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When in the fifteenth century, John Huss began
to teach in Bohemia, and gained a great number of
adherents, many Waldenses united with them; who
rejoiced, and hoped that thereby the light of the
Gospel, which, up to this time, had for so long
a period been so abominably quenched and persecuted
by the papists, would begin to shine more
clearly, burn more vigorously, and proceed the more
unobstructedly. But when, after the death of John
Huss and Jerome of Prague, who had both been
burnt by the papists, at Constance, on the Lake of
Constance, contrary to the safe conduct granted by
the Emperor, the Hussites in Bohemia, commenced
an atrocious and bloody war against Emperor Sigismund
and the German electors, and other princes,
which they, after carrying it on for a long time,
finally adjusted, and when said Hussites, as totally
estranged from their teacher and leader, John Huss,
united with the papists in many doctrinal points
and church ceremonies, many of the Waldenses,
who had at first joined the Hussites, found themselves
shamefully deceived in their hope, and bethought
themselves better, that is, according to the
doctrine of the holy Gospel, to have nothing at all
to do with such a bloody war. Again, they also began
to protest against it. They also turned away
from the Hussites, in the points of doctrine and
church usages, and established a separate church,
being afterwards called Taborites, Grubenheimer‍192
dwellers in caves, etc.

This greatly grieved the so-called Hussites, and
they, therefore, through the instigation of M. John
Rockenzahns and others, began to dreadfully hate
and persecute, not only the old faithful Waldenses,
who had never been united with them, but also these
newer ones, who separated from them. Jac. Mehrn.,
Bapt. Hist., 2d part, from Lydius, in the Hist. of
the Waldensibus.





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