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It was about this time that Luther, reading
the works of Huss, found that the great truth
of justification by faith, which he himself was
seeking to uphold and teach, had been held
by the Bohemian Reformer. “We have all,”
said Luther, “Paul, Augustine, and myself,
been Hussites without knowing it!” “God will
surely visit it upon the world,” he continued,
“that the truth was preached to it a century
ago, and burned!”—Wylie, b. 6, ch. 1
In an appeal to the emperor and nobility of
Germany in behalf of the reformation of
Christianity, Luther wrote concerning the
pope: “It is a horrible thing to behold the man
who styles himself Christ's vicegerent,
displaying a magnificence that no emperor
can equal. Is this being like the poor Jesus, or
the humble Peter? He is, say they, the lord of
the world! But Christ, whose vicar he boasts
