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 all this from the mouth of the Baron Schmidias in his Catle at Kuntat, where the good old man, being threecore and ten yeares old, hewed me the chaine, and enigne dedicated to the Order of Peace, & weeping aid, this, that religions and godly Cæar made with his owne hands, and preently after the malediction of godly Cæar, towards whom we were ungratefull, falls upon us.

5. That purpoe concerning the founding the Order of Peace, without all doubt was o pleaing, that it is a wonder that it went not forward. Some peradventure may uppoe, that they much erred from Politique counels, that this buinee was not otherwie, and by others begun, but if we looke higher, they are the jut judgments of God, bringing this whole nation and all Germanie to punihment, and uffering our enemies to fill up the meaure of their fathers. For they fild it up to the top, and utterly undid us. We hall collect this hitory by parcells, we cannot give you yet the full. Becaue his Antichritian plots forged in ecret, which we have rejected, being outward are manifet, we mut expect that God would bring to light the inward

6. But we under Mathew being intrapped, did not perceive our ruine, nay we exceedingly did rejoyce, as if the liberty of our Conciences were well provided for. When behold new on all ides contrivances of the enemies come to light, but never more Rh