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 ion of the Orders was written in the Bohemian language, and not tranlated into Latine, neither was it printed unlee in the yeare 1619. when awell the Univerity as the Conitory at Prague offered it to King Fredericke, therefore in the Harmony of Confesions it is not extant, and that which the Bohemians now call their Confesion, is the peculiar Confesion of the brethren of Bohemia, not the common Confesion of the Orders. This Mr. Bohulaus Felix a Lobkowitz, and Haenstein being appointed by the Order to have the ole managery of the buinee, tooke care to convey it into Germany, and in the year 1575. ubmitted it to the Cenure of the Divines which were asembled at Wittenburgh. The Wittenburghian Divines approved of it, and among others ued thee expresions in their anwer to the aron, although this Confesion be briefe, and we eaily oberve that in the compoing them the chiefet care was, that they might be conciely, elegantly, and properly expresed; for the avoiding of tediounese, and contentions about crupulous quetions, which peradventure ome wrangling Sophiters in our Germany would have taxed, if it had beene et forth in their owne native language: We therefore cannot but approve of your Chritian prudence and temperance. Therefore we willingly advie you publickly, that however opinions may arie from other places, that you adhere to this, and uffer not your elfe to be