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 the Church as Hereticks. There was a convenion of the States at Prague, and a Synod of the Divines, in the yeare 1450. in which by the advice of Rokizane, but by the common conent of all, an appeale was made to the Greeke Church, and Ambaadours ent with letters to Contantinople. The Greekes received the Heads of the Doctrine from them, and rejoyced in their mutuall conent, and letters in the tetimony thereof, being returned to the Bohemians, they confirmed them in the faith, having made a promie that they would ordain them Miniters for their Church. The Letters were ingroed in Parchment, and ealed with waxe of a red colour, with the ubcription of the Patriarch, and the chiefet of his Bihops, which being afterward committed to the pree, are yet extant to be een. But when thee things afforded but a lingring hope, Rokizane did again incourage his, and gave them new hopes of a Reformation, uddenly to appear: for taxing divers abues, he aid: We only now do grow on the out-ide, but hortly ome will appear, who from the depths hall draw forth the foundation of true religion.

4. When in this manner for even long yeares, hee delayed to give atisfaction to the minds of o many pious men, being againe demanded his advice, hee aid. That he now had eriouly oberved, and conidered all things, and could not yet find what to