A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §401 · Samuel Strimesius

Annotatio II §.VIII: Peter d’Ailly of Cambrai (1414) favors it — Luther admits drawing from him

Peter d’Ailly, Cardinal of Cambrai, at Constance (1414) began to favor it more openly — the same whose hand and counsel saw Huss and Jerome of Prague perish.

Luther himself confesses he drew that line from Cambrai (Babylonian Captivity, Jena Latin II fol. 263).

Latin

Donec tandem Petrus de Aliaco Cardinalis Cameracensis, qui Concilii Constantiensis tempore floruit, cujusque manu & consiliis Johannes Hussus & Hieronymus Pragensis, Viri Dei Christique martyres, miserè periêre, initio Seculi XV. Anno scil. 1414. apertius illi favere cœpit, à quo etiam D. Lutherus eandem hausisse fatetur ipsemet Lib. de Captiv. Babyl. Tom. 2. Operum Latinorum Jenensium fol. 263.

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