_The Council of_ Constance _condemns_ John Husse _for an Heretick, the Stories of his own Party style him a Martyr_.] _John Husse_ did agree with the Papists against us in the Point of Invocation of Saints, Prayers and Sacrifice for the Dead, free Will, Good Works, confession of Sins, seven Sacraments, etc. _Gordon. Hunt. l. contr. 3. de Sacr. Euch. cap. 17_. Yet was he condemned for maintaining certain Articles said by that Council to be heretical and seditious, and was burnt for Heresie. Now as I will not say he was an Heretick, so can I not maintain that he was a Martyr, if it be but for this one Article, which in the 15. Sess. of that Council was objected against him, which he did acknowledge, but would not recal, _i.e._ _Nullus est Dominus civilis, dum est in peccato mortali_. If that Doctrine should be believed, we shall have little obedience to Civil Magistrates; and without that, how miserable is humane condition? That which begat compassion towards _Husse_ in those of his own Party was, that he had a safe conduct from the Emperour _Sigismund_; and therefore it was, say they, a violation of publick faith in the _Council_ and _Emperour_ in putting him to death. _That wise heathen_ Socrates _that suffered on a fundamental point of Religion, the Unity of God_.] That _Socrates_ suffered on this Point, divers Christian Writers do object to the Ethniques, as _Justin Martyr_, Apol. 2. _Euseb. l. 5. de præparat. Evangelic. c. 14. Tertul._ in _Apolog._ cap. 14. and _Lactant. de justitia_, cap. 15. whose words are these: _Plato quidem multa de uno Deo locutus est, à quo ait constitutum esse mundum, sed nihil de Religione; somniaverat enim Deum, non cognoverat. Quod si justitiæ defensionem vel ipse vel quilibet alius implere voluisset, imprimis Deorum Religiones evertere debuit, quia contrariæ pietati. Quod quidem Socrates quia facere tentavit in carcerem conjectus est, ut jam tunc appareret quid esset futurum iis hominibus qui justitiam veram defendere Deoque singulari servire cœpissent_. _I have often pitied the miserable Bishop that suffered in the cause of_ Antipodes.] The suffering was, that he lost his Bishoprick for denying the _Antipodes_. Vid. _Aventin. in Hist. Boio_. Besides him, there were other Church-men of great note, that denyed _Antipodes_, as _Lactantias_, _Augustin_, and _Bede_. _Sect. 27. Pag. 43._ _I hold that God can do all things: How he should work contradictions, I do not understand, yet dare not therefore deny._] Who would not think the Author had taken this from Mr. _Montaign_, whose words are, _Il m'a tousjours semble qu'a un homme Christien, cette sorte de parler est plein d'indiscretion et d'irreverence [Dieu ne se peut disdire,] [Dieu ne peut faire cecy ou cela]. Je ne trouve pas bon d'enfermer ainsi la puissance divine sous les loix de nostre parole. Et l'apparence qui s' offre à nous en ses propositions, il la faudroit representer plus reverement, et plus Religieusement._ Liv. 2. des Ess. c. 12.