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E was a man excellent in abilities of the mind and zeale for God, having deerved much both of the Kings and Kingdome of Bohemia.

2. Being adjudged to die, he aid it was more welcome to him, than if the Emperour had commanded him to live, and retored him to all his goods with an addition of more. For he knew their ecret counels, and perceived what would follow. The fear and griefe of Death (aith he) is but for a few hours, and then comes the deired Ret. Being asked with others, by the Miniter of the Word, whether they did acknowledge themelves jutly condemned to the death? Hee anwered: ''If we did think that we were the caues of thee evils, we would not be ahamed to confee and detest it. But we will not fall downe and deire favour, lest we give to man that honour which is due to God, and betray our own innocency. For God knowes, the Papits did that ecretly by their plots, which we ee now done: They provoked us to take up armes, and now they landerouly lay to our charge many things, which never entred into ony thoughts. God is our witnee, that we fought for nothing but the liberty of Religion'': and