Excerpt from A Selection of the Most Celebrated Sermons of M. Luther and J. Calvin, Eminent Ministers of the Gospel, and Principal Leaders in the Protestant Reformation: Never Before Published in the United States; To Which Is Prefixed, a Biographical History of Their Lives The necessity of a reformation of the church, of the pope, and of the clergy, was acknowledged and wished for on every side and four general convoca tions and diets of the empire were held for that purpose: the first at Pisa, in Italy, 1409; the se cond at Constance, in Switzerland, from 1414 1418, where John Huss, that celebrated martyr, was burnt alive in the most unjust and cruel manner. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.