. Paganism, popery, and Christianity : or, The blessing of an open Bible, as shown in the history of Christianity, from the time of our Saviour to the present day. MARTYRDOM OF JOHN HUSS AND JEROMEOF PRAGUE. THE university of Prague had been celebrated ever since its establishment in 1348 for the learning and talent of its professors, of whom the one party, termed Realists, maintained that what arc called uni- (1G4 MARTYRDOM OF JOHN HUSS. 165 versa! or general ideas of tilings were objective, that isto say, existent independently of the human under-standing ; whilst the other, the Nominalists,
. Paganism, popery, and Christianity : or, The blessing of an open Bible, as shown in the history of Christianity, from the time of our Saviour to the present day. MARTYRDOM OF JOHN HUSS AND JEROMEOF PRAGUE. THE university of Prague had been celebrated ever since its establishment in 1348 for the learning and talent of its professors, of whom the one party, termed Realists, maintained that what arc called uni- (1G4 MARTYRDOM OF JOHN HUSS. 165 versa! or general ideas of tilings were objective, that isto say, existent independently of the human under-standing ; whilst the other, the Nominalists, held thatthose ideas were subjective, or existent only in themind of man : of these two parties the latter wasespecially cherished by the priesthood as being fa-vourable to the sophisms of the Romish theology, butthe former was more popular among the students ingeneral. Among the realists was John Huss, whohad read the writings of Wickliffe, and as early asthe year 1401 had maintained that the pope was nogreater than any other bishop, that useless holidaysought to be abolished, that the doctrine of purgatoryhad no foundation in Scripture, that confirmation
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