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The Bohemian Perſecution.
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neare, and that the one and twentieth day of June was the appointed day: And therefore they did advice that each of them would have a care of his owne ſoule, and therefore that they ſhould ſend for a Jeſuite, or Capuchin, or Miniſter of the Anguſtine Confeſſion, and ſo fit himſelfe for death; but that none of them muſt have any thought to have any Miniſter of the Order; becauſe that would not be granted unto them. Which was ſad newes to them; becauſe the greater part of the Martyres had beene auditors of the Brethren: neither could this inhibition otherwiſe be taken, than either from ſome exact or ſome ancient rooted malice againſt them, or to caſt a miſt before the eyes of the Saxons, as though ſar did not much diſlike their Order.

4. Which thing being done, the foreſaid Jeſuites and the Capuchines, not ſtaying till they were called for, flew thither like ſo many flies, uſing many perſwaſions to them, even to deſparation and deniall of the truth, and by putting ſome in hope of life. But God ſo ſtrengthned them, that all thoſe endeavours of Sathan and his Imps were in vaine, whatſoever they proteſted to the contrary; calling Heaven and Earth to witneſs, that they ſhall not be guilty of their eternall damnation, ſince that they ſo obſtinately refuſed the Grace of God.

5. The Miniſters of the Goſpell are therefore called. Iohannes Roſueins from the leſser Prague went to

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