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N the mean time, God had tirred up in Germany couragious Luther, the Thunder-bolt againt the Pope, at which many of the Calixtines in Bohemia being awakened, reolved to imbrace the purer Doctrine of the Gopell, and to eeke for the Ordination of their Miniters, rather at Wittenberge then at Rome; but the Devill interpoed and made wonderfull obtructions,

2. For when in the yeare 1523, in the moneth of January, the States of Bohemia, and Moravia being in a great number aembled at Prague, the Pators alo of the Church being called, amongt whom were of Moravia, Paulus Speratus (afterwards burned at Aumitz, by the commandement of the Bihop) and Benedist Optatus, Wencelaus Litomilius, Doctor of Divinity, and Iohn Charpe, Orthodox men, who propounded to the Regent Matters of the Univerity, twenty Articles, which were as it (were) the forerunners of Reformation, amongt which, thee were obervable.

That if any man hould teach the Gopell without the Additions of men, he hould neither be reproved, nor condemned for an Heretick. Rh