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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

so many pious men being againe demanded his advice hee said That he now had seriously observed and considered all things and could not yet find what to determine on unless there should be a separation aswell from those that used the cup in the Sacrament as from the Papists themselves for all things did abound with abominations and he found the evill irrecoverable Lupatius also delivered himselfe after the same manner when it was replied to Rokizane Let therefore a separation be made we will acknowledge thee for our Captaine we will worship thee for our Doctor we will follow thee for our Father he made answer You offer mee too great a burden to undergo You are too bold and forward it is a thing full of danger 5. In the meane time in the yeare 1453 Constantinople was taken by the Turks and two of the dispersed Grecians being come unto Prague were courteously entertained by Rokizane and suffered to celebrate the Mass after many disputations in religion Where when it jointly appeared to them that the sincerity of the faith was overwhelmed with superstition The good zealous people were more inflamed in spirit finding what they were to avoid but having none whom they might follow 6. They therefore address themselves to Rokizane again and besought him for the Glory of God to take compassion on their soules and on the seduced people and not to abandon them in so great a hazard of their salvation But he good man when forsooth hee had not so much power to preferre the Cross and ●gnominy of the people of God to the but vain hopes of an Arch-episcopall Glory in a great rage did upbraide th●m with their importunity and at last intreated them to let him alone and begin the separation without him and promised them that he would so prevail with the King who was George Podebrade and to enjoy the Crown did swear obedience unto the Pope to allow them a place where they might live securely and serve God with an undefiled conscience 7. He obtained for them the Territory of Liticitz one of the hilly countries neer unto Silesia whither immediately after those citizens of Prague Batchelors and Masters did address themselves and from other places not a few as well Plebeians as Nobles learned and unlearned their greatest confluence was to a Towne called Kunwald devoting themselves altogether to the reading of the Scripture to prayers and to workes of piety This was in the yeare 1459. They chose them teachers that is to ●ay from the Calixtines who used the cup in the Sacrament who throwing off superstition did compose themselves to the form of the primitive simplicity the chiefest of them was a devout pious old man by name Michael Zamburgh A●l of them by the name comon to Christians and acceptable to good men did call themselves brothers and sisters which was the reason that by a remarkable distinction the Title● of the Bohemian Brothers was attributed to them and so much of this CHAP. XIX The first persecution of the sayd Brothers I. THe beginning of this new Church displeased the Divell he therefore raised a sudden and a violent Tempest to overwhelme it for the fame thereof being spread abroad the Priests in every Pulpit did stirre up the hatred of the peop●e ag●inst them crying out Blow out their sparkes blow them out before they grow into a flame Rokizane himself who would belive it did put on again the mind of an Enemy and did accuse them of wicked rashnesse for there were not wanting who informed the King and Consistory against them in divers accusations 2. It came to passe therefore in the year 1461. when Father Gregory with some others did come to Prague to give a visite to his friends that they were betrayed and taken in a house to which they came to supper At which time this was observeable The Officers stood on the threshold and speaking to them in the scripture phrase said all who will live godly in Jesus Christ must suffer persecution You therefore that are here come forth and follow me to Prison He was himselfe an honest man and thought not evill of the Brotherhood but being commanded by his superiors he could not but put his charge in execution 3. The King believing the slanderous accusations of these evill men that the Brothers attempted some sedition as the Thaborites before them he commanded the holy man Gregory to be tortured who being transported into an extasie did feele no sence of paine at all and being believed by the Tormentors to be dead he was taken downe from the Rack His Vnckle Rokizane comming to him for he heard he dyed on the Rack did with many teares lament him repeating againe and againe O my Gregory would I had bin in thy place but he after some houres comming againe to himselfe revealed the Vision which he had seene which was that he was brought into a most pleasant field in the middle whereof there stood a tree loaden with fruit on which divers Birds of severall kinds sitting on the branches did feed and in the middest of them there stood a young man who did so rule them with his rod that not one of them did move or stirre out of order No doubt but by this Revelation God shewed him the Image of that little Church of which he was as Patriarck He saw also three other men who seemed to be keepers of the said tree whom sixe yeares afterward when by suffrages they were chosen to be over-seers in his Church he witnessed that in this Vision he had seene and knew them to be the same by their Physiognomy and the linaments of their Countenance 4. Gregory by the intercession of Rokizane being dismissed there came forth by the Kings command Edicts from the Consistory forbidding all Pastors to administer holy things without Ceremonies and whosoever should administer to the Brothers being now notorious by the infamous Name of Piccardins the losse of life was denounced to him The Brothers therefore being brought into great extreamities and like sheepe forsaken by their shepheards wandering up and downe they at last againe and againe came to Rokizane beseeching him if he doth respect the glory of God or his owne salvation that he would not desert that cause in which the cause of God was interested and that by his owne example he would not hinder the conversion of so many men to which they were so happily prepared nor for any cause whatsoever detaine the acknowledged Truth in unrighteousnesse They told him that he was the head of all the Clergy in the Kingdome and was to give an account of them all to God and other words were used to this purpose But when they found him obstinate they bad him farewell those words being inserted to the latter end of the Epistle Thou art of the world and shalt perish with it 5. With which being much provoked he againe exasperated the King against them and new Edicts were published in the Name of

space of three yeares a●d in those bonds hee died and afterwards was ignominiously buried near the place of punishment at Raudnice 23. There was also in the reformation of Litomislen a certain Country-man of the village of Strakow his name I have heard but it is now slipt out of my memory who did endure a long imprisonment vexed with the insultings of the Priests and of three thousand Subjects for so many that Lordship did containe was alone found constant and immov●ble He being sick by reason of the filthinesse of the prison was visited by a Jesuite and of him admonished to whom he thus answered Get thee hence thou tempter this day shall I sup with Christ and a little after he died and was buried in that place where they were wont to behead Malefactors 24. Yet more admirable was the constancy of a certain Scribe there was not any of whom I could learne his name but the thing it selfe I have read from the hands of faithfull and worthy witnesses in the Town of Dobrzisse This Towne as many of the neighbouring places were given by Caesar to Don Martin de Huerda but he disliking the service of so hard a Master resigned and lived with a certain Miller in the territories of the Suticens took upon him the office of a Schoolmaster when Don Martin came to hear of this he sent thus that they should bring the Scribe and the Miller bound in chains to the Tower of Welharti●z and commanded that both should be cast into a deep place of the Tower in the year 1623 upon the Wednesday from whence the Miller was a little while after sent but the Scribe was kept there a whole year even to his death the prison was so foul and noysome that both his feet were rotted off but he being endued with a great measure of faith past away the whole time in singing Psalms and hymns as if he were in the enjoyments of all delights And it is worthy the notice taking when a little while before his death it was reported that both his feet were rotted off and that his body was full of worms Don Martin not beleeving it commanded that he should be brought forth that he might see him he refused saying The Tyrant was unworthy to enjoy the sight of his body And so remaining immovably united unto Christ he died about the same time upon the same Wednesday following namely 1624. When he was brought forth the Tyrant forbad that he should be carried out through the gate of the City through which he entred in but commanded that he should be cast over the wall into a ditch and from thence carried away by a Sheepheard and buried CHAP. CIIII. George Balthasar Martyr I. THis appendix of the former chapter shewing how the persecutors dealt with the common people will be a History famous to posterity In the year 1629. the fifth day of May two and twenty country men were brought captives from the village of Zlonice into the City of Slana singing with a pleasant voyce and triumphant hymnes about the resurrection of Christ it was brought in as a matter of charge against them that having before turned Catholicks they returned to Heresie and ministred to themselves holy things Being sent into several prisons they were forthwith brought to examination the Chieftain of these was said to be one George Balthasar an inhabitant in the village of Tmanus who had no learning and yet was a preacher among them his Master therefore Bohuchwal Walkaun having a little before turned Apostate least that he should draw upon himself Caesars anger or evill surmizes accuseth him in a letter written to the Senate of Slana and therein requires that justice should be done upon such a Rebellious fellow The Senate having summoned this man to appear causeth this writing to be read by the Solicitor and asked what he would give in by way of answer He requires time and promiseth that he would answer the writing leave being given him he frames this answer which out of the Bohemian tongue we have thus translated word for word I Have understood what charge was drawne up against me by Iames Swojanovius under the name of Mr. Bohuchwal Walkaun The first article is That I have been pernicious to God my Creator and to men in obligation in that having turned Catholick I have again fallen from the Roman Catholick faith and have violated my Oath To this I answer That heretofore being in a cruell prison I was prevailed upon to sinne against God my most righteous Judge because then I was weak in the faith not trusting God that he was able to deliver his out of the hands of men but God chastised me for this my fault holding my conscience captive for a whole year together so that I could have no hope in Gods mercy and yet I recalled to mind former sinners who did upon their repentance obtain mercy at the hands of God Thereupon I cryed to my God a whole year night and day I did water my bed with my teares because I thought my selfe damned but that true and righteous God who is not the cause of our destruction neither would that a sinner should die but rather that hee should be converted and live when he saw a fit time did not hide his mercies from me for I obtained what I did desire hee sent his Angell unto mee and mine eies saw his glory brighter than the sun and there was given to me in a moment the holy spirit and I was born again there was likewise afforded me a discerning of the Spirits so that I could distinguish between good and evill and with this great gift I did likewise receive a command of reproving the sinnes of men Nor am I deceived for the Spirit of God doth not hide himself from any man to whom he is given that he should not declare to the wicked things future but mercy to the penitents and therefore I was likewise forbid by the spirit to doe any more the workes of the flesh according to the lusts of the world which had conspired together what they might against the just Judge of the living and the dead and against the anointed ones whom he hath chosen to himselfe Nor is my Mr. Walkaun ignorant of this for they did hinder me from speaking the truth for the space of four years but by how much the more they hindred me so much the more did God confirme mee by his Spirit Likewise they may remember that I came to the Pallace of Zlonice that I might declare unto them the truth and invite them to repentance even as the Lord Jesus had commanded me by his holy Spirit and so to continue for three days together Friday Sabbath day and Munday upon which last day I had also my booke with me but where he saith I am a seducer of soules I answer and affirme that it is the certain will of the Lord that all you also should hear me neither were they so strong

as to snatch the book out of my hand Neverthelesse they did despise the glory of God for I ought to teach all how they might come to repentance but they had a signe given them when those three spiritual men went from me asking me a sign from Heaven but they are without excuse for they themselves held the books in their own hands and I wept greatly because they did not receive the Lords Anointed which indeed is no matter of wonder seeing even from the beginning of the world they did persecute those who being renewed of God doe good workes And it was necessary that it should so happen to me that every one might know the world to be an hater of the truth because the truth is not in it and that it also might appear that the world is an enemy of God Nothing therefore could so farre affright me nor had I respect to any thing that should hinder me from the chearfull doing of that work which God had vouchsafed to deliver unto me I would therefore know of you who are made of earth and of a lump of clay as well as I what place you will shew me that I might freely teach you without impediment if that you do refuse this there will a time come wherein you would desire to shew me a place but ye shal not have it Wherefore in the name of God I do exhort you that you would not receive this grace of God in vaine nor despise it for Gods rod is already tooke up with which God will shortly lash those that do not acknowledge his voyce There are more things for me to write unto you but seeing my selfe knowes not how to write I must have respect unto others whom I doe imploy and so briefly do conclude When I shall speak with you face to face I shall distinctly unfold all things in the mean while the grace of our Lord God be with us all Amen 2. This Epistle being read and they looking upon it as being of an unusual Stile there went to him but accesse was denyed to all others the Pastor of the place and strange Jesuites conferring with him face to face and endeavoured to disswade him from his purpose but he remitting any thing of his constancy did confesse that he was indeed a Lay man and had no learning but yet whatsoever hee did preach or afterwards should preach hee had it not from himselfe but from the Holy Spirit For so it is said he as lately I haue written and often I have said that I after that my abominable fall did speake a whole yeare in weeping but at length the Lord Jesus had mercy upon mee shewed mee his wounds with which the wound of my conscience in a moment was cured and hee gave mee also the revelation of the Holy Spirit and commanded that I should declare unto others the grace shewed to me and exhort them to repentance which I have done this foure yeares and will doe as long as my life shall last I know truly that the wicked world doth endeavour to take away my life but I am prepared to die because by my death I shall glorifie Christ Hee declared also that when hee did call upon God in the prison of Zlonice the Spirit of God answered him in his heart and spake great things which were not lawfull to be uttered as also that he was taken upon high above all the powers of this world lest there should be any which might prevaile against him As he had formerly declared all these things to the common people so he did now declare them in prison to the Jesuites themselves if they did descend to controversie about the Supper of the Lord and about one Mediator Christ c. he did fitly quote Scriptures and urged them strongly he did likewise denounce punishments to the persectuors of Gods people the seducers of souls and Masse-priests He foretold also the bringing back and gathering together of the flock of Christ now scattered abroad by the wolves 3. In fine when all these things did shew a spirit more noble than that it should be resisted they took care that hee should be brought to Prague the tenth day of August and upon the fourteenth day of the same moneth they punished him and that in such a manner as was a signe of a seared conscience for before morning light the people not knowing of it they commanded that hee should be brought forth and without the gates at the gallowes be beheaded and quartered the severall quarters being as a sight set in the high-wayes as being the members of some wicked Malefactors CHAP. CV The fury of the adversary against Churches books and the dead I. NOt without reason do we believe that the Kingdome of Antichrist was shewed to John under the forme of a beast for it doth indeed appeare before all eyes if we do but consider the cruelty and madnesse of that beast both against the living and the dead and against all things contrary to it and therefore yet it remaines to be shewed what rage they exercised against livelesse things Churches Books Images Sepulchers and the bones of the dead 2 As for the temples it is not necessary that we should remember or record how they did cleanse them from that heresie with their holy-water a superstition forsooth among them for whom this sanctification by the Word of God and prayer which the holy spirit taught the Christians 1. Timothy 4 5. is not sufficient this was ridiculous to the common people but to the wise a clear and evident token of their hatred to the word of Christ that they beat the Pulpits of the Churches from whence the Word of the Gospel sounded and the Altars from which the Sacrament was distributed under both kinds with rods and whips which was of all done in those chiefe cities Prague Iglavia Znoium the Jesuites of Prague being about to purge their Temple which under Ferdinand was granted to the Brethren they sprinkled powder upon the pavement and kindled it thinking to root out the contagion of heresie with fire and smoak 3. And because in most if not all the Churches and Towers and City-gates in memory of the religion of receiving under both kinds maintained by the sword there were erected Challices made of stone or brasse they went about to take this away a golden Chalice of great capacity in the Church at Prague was taken away in the year 1623 the 23 day of Jannuary and in its place the statue of Mary was erected the picture of Ferdinand armed with a sword against the Hereticks was placed in the room of George Rex standing by with a sword in the maintenance of the Challice at Hradicius they blotted out the picture of the cuppe which was over the doore of the house of Antonius and in the roome of it painted the Host and under that a cup turned upside downe with filthy thick water running out of it and writ this They have drunk up the dregs