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 3. The General Synod of Zerawitz (1616), in the official preface to the Ratio Disciplinae, (p. 3 and 4) says:

4. Comenius (Ratio Disciplinae, Sect. 61, p. 18) says:

5. Adrian Wengersky (Regenvolscius, I, 8, p. 33), to quote the translation which Perceval has himself given, says:

6. Gindely, in his “Geschichte der Bœhmischen Brueder” (vol. I, p. 37), says:

7. The Roman Catholic Encyclopaedia, one of the greatest modern works of the Romish Church—“Kirchen-Lexicon, oder Encyclopaedie der Katholischen Theologie und Kirche, von Wetzer und Welte. Freiburg, in Breisgau, 1848”—which called forth the Protestant Encyclopaedia edited by Herzog, in its article on the Bohemian and Moravian Brethren (vol. II, p. 65), says:

“The Brethren living scattered through the country occasionally met in council for the purpose of mutual deliberations. One subject, which at such times particularly engaged their attention, was the manner in