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A34097	A generall table of Europe, representing the present and future state thereof viz. the present governments, languages, religions, foundations, and revolutions both of governments and religions, the future mutations, revolutions, government, and religion of christendom and of the world &c. / from the prophecies of the three late German prophets, Kotterus, Christina, and Drabricius, &c., all collected out of the originals, for the common use and information of the English.	Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670.	1670 (1670)	Wing C5507A; ESTC R24277	200,382	315

Eternal Word After to the Sacraments by him appointed for the remedy of Sin and so of all the other Articles of Faith from first to last and when they are well tinctured with these they then innitiate them to a more perfect course of the Christian Life And this is the manner how they propound the Christian Mysteries to the Gentiles and Idolaters beginning first with the principal Articles of the One and True God and the reward of the just and unjust c. as in this Catechism Besides this they published innumerable excellent Spiritual Books and Books of Practical Divinity and Moral Philosophy to which the Chineses are much devoted and endeavour'd to add to all rare specimens of an innocent spiritual and divine Life if we may believe their own Testimony which I confess Protestants in this end of the World have little reason to do For the Ignatians of Europe for the generality of them are more excellent at Fire Works then any thing else here and the works of the Devil then to work the Works of God But it 's like they were better there being likewise at the beginning of their Order more Spiritual and Religious then ever since the World hath found them especially England And yet we have a taste of their true Spirit in their obstructions of the Hollanders Embassy there Their first great Disciple was Paul the great Colao or Governor of the Chineses and propagator of Christianity among them Riccius put forth many admirable Books in the China Language viz. several Mathematical Books of Euclid Clavius c. Universal Geography and History of the World with Globes Maps c. Natural Philosophy the Art of Dialling Books of Astrolabes and Astronomick Instruments of Musick Musical Instruments and Organs Moral Philosophy about Friendship moderating the Passions and to live according to the dictates of right Reason and the rule of a good and happy life For the Chinois were much given to moral Philosophy and the study of virtue and happiness And Ten Paradoxes Moral and Spiritual a Book famous through all China and in great esteem and admiration among them and illustrated with Comments and high Encomiums by the most excellent of all their learn'd Leo and Paul young Convert Colao's But that which wrought unexpressible compunction of heart in them for their ill past life as they say not only among the common people but the greatest and most learned of their Monarchy viz. the Mandarins and Colao's and Eunuchs of the Kings Pallace was the Catechism of Bellarmine translated by the said Riccius The fame of which Book spread so that they were fain to print it a new several times whereby the Christian Light and Knowledge shone into every corner of the Land With several other Books for the use of others that should come thither out of Europe The next famous was Trigautius Procurator of the China expedition who return'd from China 1612. and return'd thither again with all manner of Rarities and wrote several Books for the use chiefly of the Europeans Next Father Rho Professor of Mathematicks in the Jesuites Colledge at Milan who in a short time spoke and wrote their Language like any Native and wrote several Books for the use of young Converts and with Father Schall mentioned in the first part laboured in Mathematicks for the benefit of the Chinois Who both by common and joynt study put forth above an hundred Books and especially in emendation of their Calender he was founder of a Church in the Kingdom of Sciamsi Vagnonius followed who found in the Province of Chianceu only after his return thither again from Banishment 8000 Christians and of those the chief Learned and Mandarines and afterwards died in Chianceu Anno 1640. and wrote many Books Divers others also wrote innumerable Books for the European● help so that there were Books written by them in the China Language by the Year 1636. to the number of 340. The Mandarines and Colao's also wrote Comments on their Books c. Also when their Converts began to be too numerous for the present Fathers they began an Institution of Chatechists from amongst them to initiate persons into the Christian Mysteries These Catechists were persons much and long vers'd in the Mysteries of Religion and the Christian Law and of a very divine Life better then themselves 't is like by far and such as were inflamed with servour of the Apostolick Spirit and Zeal for the Conversion of others and they were not easily admitted unto this Office but after long experience first had of them c. Their work was to go up and down the streets and on all occasions by word and example to bring the rude and ignorant to the knowledge of the True God And as they have opportunity to sprinkle Infants and Children with Holy Water to communicate Spiritual Books to those that lack'd to resolve Doubts and Questions c. And at a certain time of the day when the Gentiles flock to their Churches out of curiosity to wait there and to explain the first Principles and Elements of the Christian Faith which were wrote or engraven in fair and large Tables and Characters hung up and down upon the Walls and by their splendid Altars to any that were desirous or curious and to shew the vanity of the false Godds And moreover to invite them home for farther instruction And by these means they got many Proselytes daily They are obliged also every day to give an account to the Fathers that are Superiors in those places what they have done that day The number of Christians in Pekin was about fourscore thousand about 1655. And though this be short of the Apostolick way of Preaching the Gospel to the Gentiles yet they seem herein to out-do the Protestants and in industry labours and zeal and more abundant then they to propagate the Faith Look here you Zealous Protestants look with shame From hated Jesuites learn to spread Christs Name And Heathens form their Idols to reclaim Things proving thus prosperous they likewise had procured the Royal Patent for Power and Liberty to divulge the Gospel through all the Empire by the favour of the Grandees of the Court and Kingdom But the irruption of the Tartars about 1647. interrupted all Which hapned by reason of the Civil Wars of the Chinois among themselves which invited the Tartars to take the opportunity to break into China through the Portal of their great Wall once more as they had done formerly before in the Year 1256. which they held for above 200 years during nine Kings reigns but were at last beat and kept out again by the Chinois till this last sudden and violent return But now they over-ran it like a flood and subjected all China to their Empire the King of China was reduced to such streights that finding no way to escape from his own rebelling Subjects and so great a Monarch forsaken of all rather desirous to die then live to see worse ended his

present House of Bourbon and granted good terms to the Protestants but was afterwards stabb'd by Ravillac of the Romish and Jesuitical Faction The first occasion as was hinted of these Troubles was the Massacre at Merindal Anno 1545. but specially the great Massacre at Paris and thereupon presently throughout the whole kingdom an 1572. from which time the Holy League began Which was a Sacred Confederation of the Pope king of Spain and Duke of Guise for the Catholick Religion and to root out Hereticks And to that end to set up some more Catholick and zealously affected and engaged King and Interest either the King of Spain or Duke of Guise of the Family of Lorrain descended from Charles the great on whom the Pope pretends to have bestowed no less than the Roman Empire upon its ruine and the kingdom of France upon its alienation to Pepin his Father Lewis the 13 th his Son succeeded 1610 the most absolute King of France since Charles the Great For he reduc'd the Protestants to his obedience and all the Forts and Castles held by them to the number of three hundred diminishes the Liberty of Religion granted by Henry the fourth by Decree ordering that all the Protestants should be in all things equal with the Catholicks and enjoy the same Priviledges and Immunities In which War the Siege of Rochel was most famous where all the Art of War was shewn Anno 1628. taken and its Walls demolished Cardinal Richlieu was his chief Counsellor and Minister of State under whom he brings all France into one entire body and state yet Liberty of Religion by agreement continued to the Protestants And from that time bent all his Horce against Spain and House of Austria then encreasing So by the Conduct of Richlieu accomplish'd great things in Italy Germany Spain and Flanders as well as his own Kingdom So that by the peace at Munster between both Emperor and Spain all Alsatia was added to France and the strongest places on this side the Rhine and a good part of Flanders c. whereby France recovered the bounds as it were of ancient Gaul The Dukedom of Lorraine also during the German wars was put into the protection of France about the restoring of which there has been some difficulties of late or demurres An. 1642. Lewis the 14 th four years old succeeds in whose minority the Queen Mother managed affairs with Cardinal Mazarine a stranger which stirred the envy and hatred of the French against him 1650. The discontented Princes are imprisoned which causes intestine commotions the Prince of Conde chief 1651. They are freed Mazarin driven out of Paris and banished But the King entering his 14th year recalled Conde arms against the King 1652. At Mazarin's return now Civil Discords revive But the Cardinal outdoes them and becomes more potent and glorious Prince of Conde takes the Spaniards part in Flanders Afterwards Mazarine made Peace with England 1660. The Wars between France and Spain for twenty six years ended and Peace made The Kings marriage with Spains Infanta follows by Mazarin's and De Haro's means Which has since occasioned the late War in Flanders Conde reconcil'd to the King and restor'd Since which the Protestants never in lower condition nor more under the hatches and have lost more by this Peace then ever they did by their own Wares Aurange taken into the Kings protection and unwalled 1661. Duke of Orleans the Kings Brother Marries the Princesse of England The Duke of Lorraine sells his Provinces to the King of France his Nephew dissenting The rest since are flesh in memory Namely the Political and Civildeath as it were of the Protestants since the General Peace 1660 and since this last Peace also The Wars with England France confederating with Holland or rather poizing the lighter Ballance or weaker side The Comprehension of the Jansenists and the four Jansenian Bishops with the chief thereof Doctor Arnaud within the Bounds of the Romish Church Marshal Turein turn'd Catholick So that France is like to be one entire Body of Catholicks which no doubt is one main design on foot of the Pope and Jesuites who by strange and unobserved artifices sway Princes and their grand Ministers of State c. The Foundation and Revolutions of Spain and Portugal After the breaking of the Roman Empire there was a Kingdom founded over all Spain and Portugal by the West Goths coming out of Italy This Kingdom was destroyed afterwards by the Moors and Saracens The Goths began soon after to revive again and to erect several lesser Kingdoms by degrees as they could which in time were variously united and disunited again and perpetual Wars with one another The grand division at last was into the kingdom of the Moors and of the Christians or Goths The Moors Kingdom in the end fixed only in Andalusia or most Southern parts of Spain The Christians became divided also in time into four chief Kingdoms Castile Arragon Navarre and Portugal which could never unite till 1. Ferdinand the Great sirnamed the Catholick King of Arragon laid the Foundations of the last and greatest Monarchy of Spain by marriage with Isabel Queen of Castile c. towards the year 1480. in which Race continued ever since Whereupon mighty things ensued 1. Perpetual Union betwixt those two potent Kingdoms 2. The utter rooting out presently thereupon the Moors and Saracens from the kingdom of Andalusia who had held Spain more or less in subjection for seven hundred years Anno 1492. Upon which they presum'd to stile themselves King and Queen of Spain i. e. all Spain to the prejudice of Navarre and Portugal who were yet distinct Kingdoms 3. The seizing on the kingdom of Navarre whereto belonged Naples and Sicily c. 4. The discovery of the New World America the year 1492. After which they had the title of Catholick by the Pope to the prejudice of all other Kingdoms 5. The marrying of their only Daughter and Heir to Philip the Emperors Son Archduke of Austria Prince of the Netherlands thereby uniting those great Estates and laying the Foundation also for the present Austrian Greatness and Family continued ever since by so many intermarriages between the Spanish and Imperial branches of that potent Family And thus the Spaniards first became considerable in the World and a Terror to Neighbours and suddenly look'd like the beginners of a fifth or Universal Monarchy of the World at least the New-World Which they affected first in Title Getting 1. that of Catholick Kings after they had usurped that of Kings of Spain as designed by the Pope for Universal or Catholick Monarch to promote the Catholick Cause on Religion to root out Hereticks c. which has been alwayes their pretext and which they have been alwayes zealous and mighty sticklers for And 2 they have hereby claimed prerogative over all other Kings and by pretext of their Title have ever since look'd on themselves as the Greatest Monarchs of all the World as indeed they had

their Embassadors as free and absolute Soveraign Estates For by this time they had other Bones that touch'd them nearer to pick and a greater Enemy to deal with and a worse and nearer Neighbour which occasioned the defection of Portugal and Catalonia For the Portuguese in the year 1640 through Richlieu's Policy and Contrivance revolt and set up the Duke of Braganza right Heir to the Crown and the Catalonians turn to the Protection of France the same year Thus Spain that had the four chief parts of the World Europe Africa Asia and America and possest more Countries and People than all the ancient Monarchies put together has been shrewdly and dangerously enfeebled in some of its principal Limbs and never likely to recover its first strength 'T is observed from the Story that this Kingdom got its great increase by Marriages but lost alwayes by Arms. Three Marriages specially enlarg'd it 1. Of Maximilian the Emperor with the Heiress of Burgundy whereby all the Netherlands or Belgium came to the House of Austria 2. Of Philip the first the Emperor's Son with the Daughter and Heiress of Spain besides the Marriage of Ferdinand with Isabel her Parents which laid the first Foundation for Spains growth and greatness thereby uniting Austria Belgium or the Netherlands and Spain and of the Empire it self under Charles the 5 th Philip's son 3. Of this Charles the 5 th with the eldest Daughter and Heir of Portugal whereby his Son Philip the 2 d claimed and got that kingdom also though against the fundamental Law thereof that the Crown should not go to an Alien c. But enough concerning the encrease and decrease of this mighty Monarchy 7. Philip the 3 d succeeds about the year 1500 and finding his Estates almost destroy'd by those long and chargeable wars with Holland England c. first makes peace with England and afterwards a Twelve years Truce with the Netherlands Which done he totally banishes all the new Christians i. e. all the Moors turn'd Christians ere now out of Spain and afterwards was active for the Imperialists in the Protestant Wars of Germany 8. An. 1621. succeeded Philip the 4 th who got into his hands all the Lower Palatinate from the Elector Palatine in those Wars But lost the whole Kingdom of Portugal and Province of Catalonia before hinted with many of the best Towns in Flanders not yet recovered from the power of the French and some parts in Italy c. but many more lost this last year besides c. To particularize the Times a little Anno 1578. Sebastian king of Portugal helping Mahomet to recover the kingdom of Fez and Morocco was slain in Africa and so Portugal with all the Territories in Africa and the East-Indies fell to Spain as before-mentioned An. 1581. The Netherlanders revolt 1588. Their Invincible Armado beat by the English 1604. Spinola takes Ostend and the Prince of Orange Sluse 1609. Twelve years Truce with Spain 1621. Truce ended 1625. Breda surrendred to Spinola but retaken by Hollanders 1629. The Hollanders intercept the whole Spanish Silver-Fleet very rich coming out of their Haven in the West-Indies viz. the Port of Havan under Admiral Hayne 1635. War renewed between France and Spain which lasts for twenty years till 1660 in Flanders and Catalonia All which time various fortune Sieges Battels and taking and losing places 1640. Portugal and Catalonia revolt The Great Spanish Armado beat by Trump in the Chanel the same year 1643. French beat the Spaniards in the bloody Battel of Rocroy 1646. French take Dunkirk 1648. Peace between Spain and Netherlands after eighty years Wars 1654. A Plot discovered against Spaniards in Flanders The Duke of Lorrain sent prisoner into Spain The French relieve Arras with great victory and slaughter of Spaniards French under Duke of Guise invade Naples but repulsed 1656. French besiege Valentia Reliev'd with great victory and slaughter of them 1658. The French and English take Dunkirk This delivered to the English The French have Graveling and other places Jamaica lost to the English th' year before or more 1659. Mazarine and D' Haro contrive Peace and Marriage and Interviews of both Kings Duke of Lorrain released returns into France Sells his Provinces which he hardly knew how to get from to the French king An. 1662. Peace between the two Crowns agreed 1660. 1660. Spain renews Preparations against Portugal 1661. Spanish Armies move into Portugal The next year 1662 again invade Portugal take several places Queen of Portugal goes for England Tangier delivered to the English 1663. Spaniards like to gain Portugal But beat notoriously at Evora in a most memorable Battel Towns taken from the Portugals in the East-Indies by the Hollanders viz. Cauchin and Canamor c. Infanta of Spain betroth'd to the Emperor but departs not till 1666. An. 1662. Queen-Mother of Portugal remov'd from Government and the King administers Several Victories year after year against the Spaniards by assistance of the English 1664. King of Spain dies Since which time endeavours for Peace by Mediation of England but not throughly effectual till 1668. 1666. King of Portugal married to a Princess of France 1667. The King depos'd by his Brother and Subjects who now rules as Regent and marries the Queen c. And now Peace made with Spain who owns it a kingdom 1668. The French invade Flanders in right of his Queens Dowry and take many Territories But Peace soon made or rather but a making for they cannot yet agree on 't As for the Revolutions of England they are better known generally to English-men than can be in short described Of the Foundations and Revolutions of the seven present chief Dukedoms with the Archdukedom The Archdukedom of Austria was first a Marquisate then a Dukedom Afterwards they were Kings of Hungary and Bohemia Afterwards Emperors also as still at present And therefore shall say nothing further thereof save only that the Austrian Power has grown peculiarly by Marriages First The Emperor Maximilian the first obtain'd Burgundy and the Netherlands Philip his son Spain with its dependencies And Philip the 2 d by his father Charles the 5 th's marriage Portugal and all its dependencies as before hinted Of the great Dukedom of Tuscany or Florence The grand Dukedom of Moscovy is now reckon'd an Empire The great Dukedom of Lituania is subject to Poland The great Dukedom of Finland to Swedeland There remains only one Soveraign Great Dukedom and five Dukedoms As for the Dukedoms of Saxony and Bavaria they have the higher titles of Electorates The Great Dukedom of Tuscany was anciently a Free-State but never any more turbulent with Factions and several forms of Government in the State and most commonly between the Nobles and Commons till at last when there was no end of these Contentions the People prevailed against the Nobles Among the Commons the Medices princely Merchants were chief Adversaries of the Nobles and highly in favour with the People So that about the year 1410

And so indulging each other the free exercise of their Religion they break not League for that matter nor ever have to this day till lately notwithstanding any Civil Wars of Religion or State that have since happened Being it seems pretty equally poiz'd and ballanced on both sides But here it will not be amiss to note that these two Zuinglius and Luther went two several waies specially in point of consubstantiation or real presence Hence the Protestants became divided in Germany into Lutherans and Zuinglians afterwards called Reformed And the Names of Ubiquitarians and Sacramentarians every where break forth as has been hinted before under Germany c. Calvin afterwards rising in the place and stead of Zuinglius at Geneva added some Tenents about Predestination Free-will Universall Grace and Perseverance in Faith which further heightened and aggravated the Differences betwixt them About these arose afterwards in Holland great contentions with the Arminians which caused the General Synod at Dort against them An. 1618. c. But to return to Germany Between these two Religions of the Protestants arose grievous discords not only Theological but Political For that many would exclude the Calvinists or Reform'd from the Peace of Religion agreed on at first by the Augustian Confession at Ausburgh and banish them out of Germany Whence those violent Tumults of Ausburg in the Assemblies or Meetings of the States against the Elector Palatine 1560. and again against the succeeding Palatine Elector 1590. and of Lipsia and Brunswick 1595. And this might be one reason perhaps of the Elector the Duke of Saxony's siding at first with the Emperour against the Palatine in the Bohemian-German Wars about the year 1619. the Palatine being head of the Calvinists or Reform'd and then also the chief of the Electoral Princes and the Duke of Saxony of the Lutherans But afterwards fearing the Emperors prevailing and greatness who had ejected the Palatine and the coming in thereupon of Gustavus Adolphus in defence of the German Princes Liberties the Elector of Saxony convocates all the Protestant Princes at Lipsia an 1630. where they concluded of a defensive League against the Emperor and Imperialists and that Liberty was to be propagated and maintained by Arms. But after the King of Swedes death c. he deserts them and by himself alone injuriously agrees with the Emperor against the Swede and the rest c. The conditions of which Peace others also accepted and agreed to as before has been intimated In the end at the conclusion of these Wars of Germany by Munster Treaty 1648. This Political differance was reconciled and they agreed and united into one common name of the Augustan Confession at first made in the beginning of the Reformation as aforesaid The Theological differance ever since both Princes and Divines at this day labour hard to compose and 't is hoped that a bridle will be put upon the Tongues and Pens of the Pastors and Professors that they do not condemn but tolerate one another mutually and friendlily dispute their controversies amongst themselves In France they have of late proceeded so far as to allow and embrace communion with them and in their Churches and Sacraments if they will which made the Friers and Jesuites write that they might as well hold communion with them and be reconciled to the Church of Rome for that the Consubstantiarians was as far from the Sacramentarians as the Transubstantiarions but sufficiently answered Yet the Swedes have this present year lately decreed and enacted by Law for all to lose their native freedom that shall bring up their children in any other Religion then the Lutheran But to return to the Switzers This concord of Religion then made between them lasted till 1654 when a new War kindled amongst them again for Religion and the Protestants cruelly Murthered and Slaughter'd For when some Families of the Canton of Switzers and other Cantons had embraced the Gospel they cruelly put them to Death This those of Zurick and Berne would not suffer After long contestation at last they come to Arms and fierce War begins betwen those of Zurick and Lucern till at last the French King interposing and England this War was composed the same year and the civil commotions for Religion begun presently ended the Duke of Savoy likewise not only then but since persecuted the Waldenses in Piedmont as there has bin hinted c. An. 1663. the Duke Palatine of Newburg by his edict commands all Protestant Lutheran or Reformed out of his Dominions The Elector of Brandenburg by way of retortion in like manner commands all Papists out of his This should have been noted there The last year upon Jealousies of the great preparations of the King of France against some Neighbouring Countries of the Empire and his thriving Greatness this Commonwealth raise an Army of fifty thousand which chiefly diverted him from his then intended designes The thirteen Cantons are Switz Uren Underwald first united 1305. Lucern added 1332. Zurich and two others 1352. Bern 1353. Friburg and another 1481. Another and Basil 1581. and the two last 1511. two hundred years from the first Seven are Papist as Switz Lucern c. four Protestant as Zurich Basil Bern c. Bern is of all the largest and most potent c. and two mixt of Both. Of Geneva The Soveraignty of this City or Commonwealth was anciently in the Earls thereof at first Imperial Officers only but at last the haereditary Princes thereof Between these and the Bishops arose Controversies for the absolute Command At last the Bishops being under the Pope Powerful in those dayes obtained of the Emperor to be sole Princes thereof free from all Taxes and not accountable to any but the Emperor But to maintain it they were fain to call in the Earl of Savoy then who takes upon him first as Protector of them only but afterwards as Lord in chief Whence his pretence to it still And in this Sate it stood till the year 1528. the Bishop being their immediate Lord under him as supream But then Religion being altered in the Canton of Bern adjoyning by Zuinglius c. Viret and Farellus indeavour it in Geneva also But the Bishop and Clergy oppossing it by Persecution Violence and Tyranny the People defend themselves and their priviledges and by force expel the Bishop and his Clergy And though the Bishop made many fair overtures yet would they never harken to any accommodation nor ever admit him again and so changed the Government of the state also disclaiming all allegiance both to Duke and Bishop and standing on their own Liberty as a free Commonwealth like their Neighbour Canton who had sped so well under theirs Calvin afterwards An 1536. confirm'd them in these beginnings made them abjure the Pope and never more to admite their Bishop And then sets up his Ecclesiastick Discipline called since Presbyterian by the Form thereof by Presbyteries and gets it ratified by the Senate An. 1637. But the next year

and learned Divines here in England as well as elsewhere and all possible wayes and means to have been used to discover any cheat or imposture which none have been able to do for this thirty years together To clear the Readers way to the things themselves we shall only give a brief account of the last most severe and rigorous examination of Drabricius in brief thus Drabricius seemed to promise from God victories and the Kingdom to Ragotzi and other things to others c. who yet was killed by the Turks in 1660. which most of all made his Prophesies suspected Those of his fraternity therefore seing all things go worse in Hungary and least they should all suffer for the fault of one they take councel together to remove from themselves all suspition of compliance or conspiracy with him The principal therefore among them was Felinus a Pastor of the Exciles at Puchow who wrote a book in latine called the Ignis Fatuus or false fire of Nicholas Drabricius Indeavouring to demonstrate all the Revelations of Drabricious either to be meer figments of his own brain or meer satanical delusions and dedicated to the Belgick Churches in Holand which yet those from whom he required it to be printed thought not advisable yet to do it but rather thought him too rash and hasty This Pastor dying according to Gods threatening by Revelations to Drabricius Veterinus another of the Seniors of the same Church not at all terrified at this event a chief instigator of Felinus undertakes the cause which the aforesaid Pastor lost his life in and by divers writings letters and epistles to divers persons bitterly renews the accusations and mightily urged the Edition of the false fire and assumed a Physician the more to help him therein So that new Dissentions Divisions Schismes Hatreds and Scandals arose and even those who were most perswaded of these Revelations began to hesitate and doubt Therefore taking counsel together they decreed to bring this cause before God in seting a part dayes of prayer and fasting the means to cast out Devils and lastly to give a Solemn Oath the onely ordained means of God to put an end to all striffe The Solemn Form of Prayer used among all both in Holand and else where we shall not insert here At this time one of the Juniors of the fraternity returned into Hungary sent by Comenius and others with these instructions 1. To inform the Brethren where ever in any place congregated of the modren state of the controversie and what we thought needfull to be done and to require a fraternal cooperation to take away scandals 2. That the state of the controversie lay in this Whether Father Nicholas Drabricius did really and in truth undergoe any divine Revelations or whether obstinately and impiously fained them Some Godly hope the first Paul Veterinus affirms the last They were to see therefore on what foundation the one and the other built And that it was decreed to commit the Judgment to God the Avenger And to bring him to an examination such as had never yet been by a most dreadful Oath which is the Divine Institution for the desiding of controversies and an extraordinary one also in such an extraordinary case And the very form thereof out of the Divine Scriptures to be offered to Drabricius which if he submit to and take that it is our duty to leave the Judgment and Vengeance to God And Veterinus if he will not rest in that to take heed least he provoke the just Vengeance of God in seeking to take the Sword of Vengance out of his hands And lastly whether Drabricius would confess and acknowledge or could remember or any wayes find out any thing of his own added or mixed therewith if he submitted to this determination With an Epistle to the Pastors and Elders of both the Churches Puchow and Ledna subscribed by I. Amos Comenius John Bitner Nicholas Gertichius Daniel Veterus Which we shall also omit and think it sufficient to set down the Oath it self only The Execration or Curse of the Oath shall be perform'd thus in these words I Nicholas Dribricius aggrieved with the suspition of some as if I did utter in the name of God words not commaned from God but rashly devised by my self and thereby draw off men from God to him that was no God which according to the Scripture is to be led into error by a spirit of Fornication and to go an whoring from God and is an Abomination worthy of death arrogantly to speak in the name of God what God has not commanded I therefore to testifie the truth in the sight of the God of truth and to free my self from that ungodly crime indeavoured to be cast upon me and my neighbours from all hurtful and pernicious error that they may not sin against the Innocent and by unbelief of the words of God harden themselves in impenitence and be a cause to others also to harden themselves Behold I take upon me all the Curses which against this kind of Iniquity God has either pronounced out of his most Holy Mouth or has demonstrated by Praesentanious examples of his just fury I therefore say boldly with David If I have done this if this Iniquity be found in my hands let the Enemy pursue my Soul and overtake it and tread down my life in the Earth and bring my Glory into the Dust And as such who Prophesie lyes in Gods name whom God sent not neither hath commanded them nor spake unto them yet for their own ends Prophesie a false Vision and Divination and a thing of nought and the deceit of their heart as God hath condemned by his decree that they shall perish by Sword and and by Famine Likewise that the foolish Prophets that follow their own spirit and have seen nothing but prophesie vanity and divine lyes that they shall not be in the assembly of his people neither shall they be written in the writing of the House of Israel neither shall they enter into the Land of Israel that the people of God may know that he is the Lord God Behold out of the Mouth of God I pronounce the same against my self that if I be such a one it may happen to me in like manner as the Righteousness of God has spoken Amen Yea and if I have offered to bring strange fire out of the forge of my own brain and not taken from the Altar of the manifest Word of the Lord into the Tabernacle of the Church and to offer before the Lord Let the just Zeal of God shew upon me the example of Nadab and Abihu that fire may go forth from the presence of the Lord and devour and burn up me in the midst of my Brethren that I may dye before the Lord and Jehovah be sanctified in those that draw neer unto him and may be glorified in the sight of all his People Amen Moreover if my heart has declined from God and the Word of his