But inasmuch as I fear to offend against the truth, or to gainsay the opinion of the doctors of the Church, I cannot abjure any one of them.
Even if I should stand before the stake which has been prepared for me, I would never accept the recommendation of the theological faculty.
For God is my witness that I neither preached, affirmed, nor defended them, though they say that I did.
I, Jan Hus, in hope a priest of Jesus Christ, fearing to offend God, and fearing to fall into perjury, do hereby profess my unwillingness to abjure all or any of the articles produced against me by false witnesses.
Moreover, concerning the articles that they have extracted from my books, I say that I detest any false interpretation which any of them bears.
O God and Lord, now the council condemns even Your own act and Your own law as heresy, since You Yourself did lay Your cause before Your Father as the just judge, as an example for us, whenever we are sorely oppressed.
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