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A80219	The history of the Bohemian persecution, from the begining of their conversion to Christianity in the year 894. to the year 1632. Ferdinand the 2. of Austria. Reigning. In which the unheard of secrets of policy, consells, arts, and dreadfull judgements are exhibited.	Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670.	1650 (1650)	Wing C5508; Thomason E1282_1; ESTC R208946	168,002	391

fell upon a cloth that was spread there for that purpose and so received the blow of the sword After that his right hand was cut off and was hung up with his head on an iron speare upon the high Tower of the Bridge but his carcase was wrapt in a cloth and conveyed away by some in mourning habits to a cave and a fresh cloth is spread which is observed to be done for all of them that none of those that suffered might see the Corps or bloud of those that suffered before them CHAP. LXII Wenceslaus Baron of Budowa a Monke of Graetium Lord of Klastericke and Zazadka I. THis man had an incomparable wit famous for his learning as appeareth by his writings renouned for his travels through Germany Italie France England and Turkie where he lived seven years he was very zealous deserving reverence even for his age for he was seventy years old eminent also in regard of his places of preferment For under Rodolphus he was a Counsellor and was called to the place of one of the Directors of the reformed Consistory and Academie By Matthias he was made a Counsellor and by the Order Director of the Kingdome in the vacancy until a King was elected Lastly he was President of the Court of Appeales the glory of his Country and the bright shining starre of the Church he was none that Lorded it over his inferiors but was rather a Father to them In a word he was right deare both to God and man 2. After the Victory of Ferdinand he accompanied his family out of Prague his Wife his Sonne Nurse Nephews and least he should seeme to have forsaken the Crowne whereof with one Otto he was appointed keeper he returned His house not long after was plundred even to his wearing apparell he onely saying that the Lord hath given and the Lord hath taken 3. Paulus Aretinus being Secretary of the Tribunalls talking with him for he was now kept under arrest in his owne house and being demanded that since he had b n once in the deeps why he would trust hims●lfe to those tempestuous storms he did answer his conscience pressed him to what he did It was Religion that perswaded him to forsake his Countrey and a good cause But I know not Gods pleasures whether he will that I should seale it with my bloud And rising up he said I am here my God dispose of me thy servant as it seemeth good in thine eyes I am full of years take from me my life that I may not see those evils which I see are now comming on my Country Being another day visited by the same party and being before acquainted of the report that went on him that for very griefe he died smiling he answered What me I had never had he happinesse to injoy so much pleasure as now b●hold my Paradise shewing his Bible it never yeelded me so much Nectar and Ambrosia as now I live and will live as long as God please neither I hope shal any man see that day wherein good old Budowecius was said to die with greif Being examined of the Inquisitors often he stifly maintained the equity of the cause and being condemned he said to the Judges Yee have long time thirsted after my bloud but know withall ye will find God a revenger of innocent bloud for whose cause we suffer 4. The third day before the execution hee told his dreame to his servant Zidnowskie He dreamed that he thought he saw himselfe walking in a pleasant field and thinking of the event of these things with a heavie heart when behold one comming to me offered me a booke which when I looked into I saw silken white leaves and nothing therein written but the fift verse of the thirty seven Psalme Commit thy way unto the Lord and put thy trust in him and he shall bring it to passe when he began againe to thinke what that meant another came and brought a white Robe which he cast upon him The old man awaking told it presently to his servant and as hee went on the Scaffold hee said to him Now I goe covered with the cloth of Righteousnesse that I may appeare before God in whom I hope 5. After the pronunciation of the sentence as he was going into the Crosse two Capuchins met him and told him the cause of their comming which was to afford him mercy in these straits he demanded of them what that mercy was They did answer that they might shew him the way of the Lord. He replied again I know that by the mercy of my God They again said Sir you are deceived in your opinion Unto whom hee answered I rely not on opinion on but the infallible truth for I have no other way but him who said I am the way the truth and life But they replied there is no salvation out of the Church and here they fall into discourse of the authority of the Church to trifle away the time and would gladly confine it to the Pope and Cardinals in which discourse they use vaine repetition in desiring their principles to be granted whereat the Martyr incensed said but I think your Pope is a Divel and Antichrist and the son of perdition and that Beast that was made red with the bloud of Saints depart with him to the place ye have deserved and let me alone yet if ye will learn from me the way of truth stay ye it will not be tedious to me to spend some time and pains to save your soules Here they beating their breasts and signing themselves with the sign of the Crosse they departed complaining that they never met with such a blasphemous Heretick 6. In like manner on the day of Martyrdome very early in the morning two Jesuites came into the Court and began again to trouble these holy men and when some slighted them they came to the Baron and said We perceive that this Baron is very learned we doe desire to gaine his soule and afford unto him the worke of mercy to whom he said What! would ye gaine my soule Would ye were assertained of your salvation as I am of mine the Lord be praised who by his holy spirit hath assured me of my salvation by the bloud of the Lambe The Jesuite replyed Good sir do not presume too much and assume that to your selfe whereof no man can promise to himselfe any certainty For doth not the Scripture say No man knowes whether hee have deserved grace To whom the Baron answered Is it therefore that I have need of your mercy Yee unhappy gainers of soules yee rather infuse desparation into me but ye erre not knowing the Scriptures And here hee expounded and gave them the sense of this place and brought other portions of Scripture which prove the infallibility of the salvation of beleevers Amongst others that of Saint Paul I know in whom I have believed also I know that a crown is laid up for me The Jesuit interrupting him said This Paul

of these troubles they throw them headlong out of the Castle windowes together with their secretary Philip Fabricius who was privy to all their designs This indeed was done rashly and without mature deliberation but they were engag'd to it by a protestation made against the disturbers of the peace in the yeare 1609 for Pope Lewis was then absent The enemies look't upon it as a miracle that none of those that were throwne downe lost their lives but truly it was not so strange that men falling on the soft ground strewed with papers under the Chancery window should remain without any hurt It was rather a signe that God would have them preserved to be the Bohemians scourges 3 Having begun to put their intent in practise against these men and appeasing the tumult which was upon this occasion raised through all the cities of Prague They banished the Jesuites out of the Kingdome as the chiefe contrivers of these mischiefs whose instruments onely these men were in the yeare 1618. 23 day of May which act administred a welcome occasion to the enemies of kindling the War about Religion wherewith all Europe is in a flame at this day And although the Bohemians by Embassadours did protest to Caesar that they had no intentions against his royall Majesty but onely to bring to punishment the disturbers of the publicke peace being thereunto authorized not onely by his Majesties letters but engaged also by their protestation made at that time humbly beseeching Caesar that hee would not otherwise interpret the action Yet Caesar by the instigations of Ferdinand and those of the league resolved to revenge this treason as they called it or by the force of arms and the Bohemians on the other side resolved to defend themselves by armes and therefore chose in that Interregnum 30 directors the Moravians and Silesians in the mean time taking the Bohemians parts when they perceived Religion to be the cause of the quarrell 4. It did appeare that this was that which the enemies laboured for and that to this purpose they divers wayes provoked the Bohemians because the Jesuites applauded themselves in this fit occasion of a totall conquest of the Bohemians as the States declared in their Apology of some out of their intercepted letters 5. Those of Caesars counsellors which did advise them to use more moderation were not regarded The Cardinall Cleselius Bishop of Vienna was accused by the Spanish Embassador before Caesar as a traitor to the house of Austria and imprisoned because that hee was against the War They report that when Cleselius affirmed that the destruction of that flourishing Kingdome would undoubtedly follow if they were forced to a desperate defence of their liberties Ferdinand should answer We would rather have the Kingdome destroyed then damned An Imperiall Army presently rushed into Bohemia under Generall Dampier afterwards a Spanish under Generall Bucquoy 6. In the mean time Matthias Dies and the Bohemians with the Moravians Silesians and Lusations consult whether Ferdinand who wa so open an enemy both of their Religion and Liberties and rather obtruded on them by subtilty than chosen by their free consent and who had intermedled with their affaires while Matthias was yet living contrary to his own Letters Patents should bee admitted to the Crown and at last conclude that hee should not succeed Whereupon they send Embassadors to Franckford where the Electors were assembled for the choice of a new Emperour to signifie this and to desire that Ferdinand might not bee admitted among them by the name of King of Bohemia whom they would not acknowledge for their King But this was in vaine for hee was admitted and afterward chosen Emperour the Bohemians in the meane time electing Fredericke Count Palatine for their King CHAP. XLIV The Bohemians being overcome undergoe a terrible storme I. THose of the League being provoked by this are hurried into furie and raising greater forces rush againe into Bohemia under Maximilian of Bavaria and taking by storme Pracatice and Pisek Protestant townes put the Citizens to the sword for a terror to others and every where make great slaughters of the Protestants At length they came as farre as Prague the Metropolis of the Kingdome which being struck with a Pannicke feare after the overthrow of their forces in a set battell before the Walls in 1620. the 8 of November and the flight of their new King is delivered unto them and all Bohemia Moravia and Silesia The Conquerour promising to keep articles but afterwards performing them according to the manner of the Councell at Constance 2. And now began the face of the Bohemian Church to appeare in sadnesse at the raysing that most cruell persecution which hath brought an utter ruine and destruction of the Protestants They now carried on their designes otherwise than they formerly did in England the Low-Countries and France doing more mischiefe by their milde as they would have it seem proceedings than lately by their outragious furie when the sword and fire and wheele were the instruments of their rage against the faithfull Which was a new policy of the Whore of Babylon to appear couretous that she might scare fear from her by her cruellty For that their Privie Councel is open and manifest wherein when it was debated at Rome about the time of the preparation for the war in the year 1617. how they should deale with the Bohemians and other Germanes after the Conquest it was agreed That seeing those strong purges which had bin administred for the expelling hereticall humors had wrought weakely they would try whether they could be cured by a temperate d●et And therefore it was not commodious to put the Hereticikes to death wherein they did glory as in Martyrdome but to use some other meanes whereby to weary them and reduce them to their obedience And to change the hatefull and rigid name of Inquisition into the milder name of Ref rmations 3. And according to this decree they proceeded aganist the Moravians Bohemians and Silesians so that all that professed the pure doctrine of the Gospell were oppressed and had onely the favour of not being utterly extinguished few among them obtaining the glory of Martyrdome Don Martine de Huerda by Nation a Spaniard by trade a Taylor but being brought up from his youth in Bohemia had enobled himselfe by the stealing away the Countesse of Serivia of the house of Kolowrat and afterwards for hs valour advanced to a Barons degree and enriched with a great estate was often heard to boast to the Protestants faces that when he brought the newes of the victory to Vienna standing at Caesars side he advised him to command them to be slaughtred without distinction of sex or age that there might not be any remainders of so rebellious and Hereticall a Nation To whom Caesar answered that hope of favour was given them by the Duke of Bavaria but there would not afterwards want meanes whereby to quell the Haeresie and rebelious desires of so barbarous