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 6. 4. 6. Be not deceived, God will not be mocked: Gal. 6. 7.

6. But ince this is the condition of our countrey in general, we may cry out with the Prophet, Unlee the Lord had left us a very mall remnant, wee hould have been as Sodome, and we hould have been like unto Gomorra, Ia. 1. 9. by whom the field of Gods Church in Bohemia being planted again, might yeeld an acceptable harvet to God: for there were many went away, who had rather cleave to Gods Worhip, than to flatter Ieroboam, and by their hlthy Idols break their Covenant with God, and of thee there are above twelve thouand.

7. Among the Nobility, and Knights, in the year 1630. according to compute calculated as exactly as could be, there were found in banihment, 185 families, which had gone out outout [sic] of Bohemia, and each family 1. 2. 3. 10. 20. yea, there were found unto 50. male perons, as in the families of Caplirzor, Gertoref, and Kebler.

8. And by Gods mercy, there was a good part of the Minitery found (but I doe not know how to give you a jut account of them) among all the brethren, I am certaine, that about 200, who were alive in the year 1620, in Bohemia, and in Moravia, there were alive about 96, the ret in the pace of 10 years, either by word or petilence, or dieaes contracted by frights, and cold, or famin, or prion had detroyed. 9. The