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The Taborites those strict republicans and religious reformers who had made Mount Tabor their head-quarters were in power, and ruled the city with a rod of iron, destroying all the remaining splendor of the churches and sternly prohibiting every display of ostentation by the people. Death was named as the punishment for such venial faults as dancing, gambling, or the wearing of rich attire.
"No, Theobald it is not impiety; it is the word of the Lord, and the love of Jesus, we trust, which directs and consoles our hearts." Theobald. Yours! yes: I believe it; for I see it hourly. But these Taborites, Arnold this ferocious and cruel Ziska do they know the name of Jesus they who persecute the Holy Church? Arnold.
When at the Council of Basel an agreement was patched up with the Calixtines on the footing which I have just named, 1433, a few further promises being thrown in which might mean anything and, as the issue proved, did mean nothing, the Taborites would not listen to the compromise.
A conflict so hideous could not long be waged without a rapid deterioration of all who were engaged in it. The spirit of Huss more and more departed from those who called themselves by his name. Intestine strifes devoured their strength. Not so the Taborites, who drew their name from a mountain fastness which they fortified and called Mount Tabor.
What did they get by their trouble the poor Bohemians? Hussites, Taborites, Utraquists sacrificed their lives, but Bohemia is still Catholic! It was all folly!" "Do you belong to the Roman Church, First Lieutenant?" "I don't belong to any Church at all; I belong to the army. And now we will take Prague with a coup de main." So it fell out.
In Rome we know of Rienzi in 1347, who eventually became hardly more than a popular demagogue; in Florence there was the outbreak of Ciompi in 1378; in Bohemia the excesses of Taborites in 1409; in England the Peasant Revolt of 1381.
More than once the fanatic Taborites laid the land waste up to the gates of Vienna. The Reformation, a century later, did not take deep root in Austria. At best it was only tolerated, and the Jesuit reaction, encouraged by Rudolph II. and Matthias, made short work of it. The Thirty Years' war gave Ferdinand II. an opportunity of restoring Bohemia to the Roman Catholic communion.
The Confession of faith of the Calixtines and Taborites, signed at the Synod of Cuttenburgh in 1541; The Confession of the faith of the Bohemians, inserted in the "Harmony of Confessions," published at Cambridge in 1680. The Consent of faith at Sendomer. VIII. The symbolic book of the ARMINIANS, is The Declaration of the Remonstrants, drawn up by Episcopius, and signed in 1622.
And when the war ceased, and George of Podiebrad mounted the throne, it gave all its influence to a government of which the policy throughout was just, and wise, and temperate. Acted upon by the efforts of this seat of learning, the Taborites themselves became gradually tame.
Some think they had held them for centuries; some think they had learned them recently from the Taborites. If scholars insist on this latter view, we are forced back on the further question: Where did the Taborites get their advanced opinions? If the Taborites taught the Waldenses, who taught the Taborites? We do not know.
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