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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

in my God that he will graciously accept my contrite spirit It was certaine that he had reposed some hope in the favour of men of which he was deprived 3. A certaine Canon with a Jesuite brought him upon the scaffold unto whose speeches exhortations comforts and the rest of their trifles hee seemed little to attend For hee turned himselfe from the kisse of peace as they call it and turned his backe to the signe of the crosse and falling downe on his face he prayed softly afterwards lifting up himselfe and looking up to heaven he cried out They can take away the body but they cannot take away the foul O Lord Jesus I commend that unto thee so hee ended his life being about fifty six yeares of age CHAP. LXIX William Konezchlumski HE was about seventy yeares of age and had been for some yeares deprived of the use of his feet They laid this crime to his charge that hee had aided the Emperors enemies with his counsell and wealth Being called to execution hee said I will go and die but I know not wherefore O Lord Iesus who being innocent didst undergo death grant that I may die the death of the righteous and receive my soul into thy hands CHAP. LXX Bohoslaus de Michalowtz Lord of Rugenice I. HE was a man excellent in abilities of the mind and zeale for God having deserved much both of the Kings and Kingdome of Bohemia 2. Being adjudged to die he said it was more welcome to him than if the Emperour had commanded him to live and restored him to all his goods with an addition of more For he knew their secret counsels and perceived what would follow The fear and griefe of Death saith he is but for a few hours and then comes the desired Rest Being asked with others by the Minister of the Word whether they did acknowledge themselves justly condemned to the death Hee answered If we did think that we were the causes of these evils we would not be ashamed to confesse and detest it But we will not fall downe and desire favour lest we give to man that honour which is due to God and betray our own innocency For God knowes the Papists did that secretly by their plots which we see now done They provoked us to take up armes and now they slanderously lay to our charge many things which never entred into our thoughts God is our witnesse that we sought for nothing but the liberty of Religion and in that we are overcome and condemned to die we acknowledge that God will not have his Truth defended by swords but by our bloud We will die therefore with an assured hope that our death will be a Martyrdome in the eyes of God therefore let us hasten to die that wee may bee numbred in the assembly of the holy Martyrs 3. Which desire of Martyrdome did demonstrate it selfe in the instant of death For when the Lord de Bile was called out by the Sheriffe he as if there were yet place for emulation said Why is de Bile preferred before me in death of whom I alwayes took● place in life But yet arising hee embraced and kissed him saying Go before Brother according to Gods will and I will follow When in the mean time the Lord Otto Czervin Konez Chlumskie were called out in order Hee as if hee were afraid to be passed by said with a loud voice What is the matter my God Thou knowest that I resigne my selfe wholly to thee Ah doe not despise thy servant but make hast to take me away The Minister having espied the Sheriffe returning told him That that glory which he made such hast unto was now present for now they come to call you Hee exceedingly rejoycing said Praise be to thee my God that I shall now be taken out of the world that may be with Christ And went forward to meete hem 4. When the Minister of the word put him in mind of Christ his speech I will not leave you comfortlesse he added So our Saviour hath promised but he hath also added Father J will that where I am my servant also may bee that hee may behold that glorie which thou gavest me Because therefore our heavenly Father hath the same will with the Sonne I know that this is confirmed Therefore I make hast to die that I may be with Christ and see his glory c. And then he suffered Martyrdome couragiously CHAP. LXXI John Theodore Sextus HE was a man skilfull both in learning and experience eminent also in Religion a chiefe Citizen of the old City being brought to the Scaffold he received a grant of his life from Platesius a Canon his Nephew of his Sister who procured the pardon 2. Being then banished with others for Christ he is in banishment while we write these things and as a new-risen Martyr doth hitherto triumph in the Crosse of Christ CHAP. LXXII Valentine Kochan a Citizen of new Prague I. HE was a man well learned and a Mr. of Arts being about sixty years of age Because hee being in Rodolphus his time chosen a Governour of the Consistory and University in the year 1617. When Ferdinando was thrust upon them as their King he being the Deputy of the inhabitants of the City of Prague did protest That by no meanes a King should be chosen without the consent of the Moravians and Silesians much lesse crowned and by that meanes did draw so much hatred upon himselfe that he was first cast out of his Office of Protonotary in new Prague now the directorall dignity intervening he was thought worthy of death 2. Having called Mr. Rosacius he desired that the Eucharist might be administred unto him complaining much of those which did not sufficiently respect that Agreement which was made among the severall degrees of Protestants and who had promoted this Antichristian persecution by stirring up strife and debate because of some difference in opinions and Ceremonies 3. He discoursed very piously concerning many things in the time of his imprisonment and did exceedingly encourage both himselfe and others Among other things a little before the time that he was to suffer death he explained that place of Paul For our conversation is in heaven saying The faithfull while they live are in body on earth but in their conversation in heaven that is their shadow is onely here they themselves do reign indeed with Christ in the heavens much more their soules being separated from their bodies are immediately with Christ and it cannot be thought to be otherwise 4. Going on to the Scaffold he said Grant mee O God that J may passe through this valley of death and presently see thee in the land of the living for thou knowest my God that J have loved thy Word Then he sung the last verse of the 16 Psalme in meeter Bring me O Lord through the paths of life that J may see a fulnesse of joyes in thy presence c. and presently Now lettest thou thy servant depart in

oppression of liberty and Religion and because wee saw our selves circumvented by subtilty wee thought something was to bee done and would rather lose our lives rather than by a dull silence yeeld to the yoke and betray posterity I acknowledg that it was the will of God that we should outwardly fall who hath chosen me and my beloved fellowes in this last age to honour the truth by our bloud and to make it glorious by our constancy And although the flesh began to tremble at the hearing the sentence of death yet now by the goodnesse of God I feel no feare of it 3. When the Minister often interrupted him perswading him not to hang his salvation upon a good Conscience but upon the mercy of God thiough Christ the pious old man continued on his speech Yesterday it was told me from my Aunt Pruakovia that if I would petition ●o Prince Lichtenstein I might have a grant of my life but so as to remain in prison all the days of my life To which I answered that such a grant would be both unprofitable and inconvenient For if I should desire pardon I should give an occasion to some to suspect that I had committed some crime and had deserved death which I have not deserved Tell her therefore that I will desire pardon of him against whom I have committed many sinnes all my life but I never offended the Prince But if they should of their owne accord offer me a prison instead of death such a change would be very troublesome I am a decrepit old man and have lived long enough for when I cannot distinguish the tasts of meats or relish the sweetnesse of drinke when it is tedious to sit long and irkesome to lye when I cannot walk unlesse I lean on a staffe or be moved to and fro in others hands what profit I pray you would such a life be to me And if I can hardly endure it while it is free how shall I be able to suffer imprisonment God forbid that J should be pulled from this holy company of Martyrs 4. The next day being the Lords day having received the Lords Supper he said Behold now being reconciled to my God through Christ I have peace neither doe I feare man J will confidently say with David Let my flesh and my body be consumed but God is the rocke of my heart and my portion for ●ver Now there is nothing that may stay my thoughts on the earth besides my Nephewes for whom O servant of Christ J intreat you that you would as much as you can exhort them without intermission to piety and to imitate that constancy whereof they see an example in me although J know that you who are the fathers and shepheards of our souls are not without danger We go before but you wil follow but God keep you for his own glory and let him not suffer his Church to be wholly trampled on by the Babilonish beast 5. On the day of execution when the Minister of the word came to him hee said J had laid this miserable body upon a bed but what sleep could J have Yet J did sleep and saw two Angels comming to me who wiped my face with fine linnen and exhorted me to be ready to goe along with them But J trust in my God that J have these Angels present with me not by a dream but in truth which minister to me while J live and shall carry my soule from death into Abrahams bosome For although J am a sinner yet I am purged by the bloud of my Redeemer who was made a Propitiation for our sinnes Therefore let the houre of Death come J am prepared 6. Having put on his clothes he comanded that a garment of the finest linnen which hung down to his heels should be put over him and then said to M. Lippuch Behold I put on my wedding garment To which the other answered The garment of Christs righteousnesse adorns more gloriously within He answered again I know it but yet I desire to be adorned without for the honour of my Bride-groom At last hee put on a velvet Cloak and being called out he answered In the name of God for I did even now expect it And then being helped by his servants hee arose and bid farewell to all and went away with a slow pace by reason of the weaknesse of age Being to go down by certain steps to the scaffold he sayd Oh my God strengthen me left I fall down and become a matter of scorn to the enemies 7. When he came to the appointed place he had much ado to kneele downe being half crooked Hee desired that that the Executioner might be advised to strike as soon as ever hee should see him lie down lest hee might happen to fall by faintnesse But the Executioner seeing him so crooked and to hang down his head so much would not strike him Therefore the Minister Rosacius by the appointment of the Sheriffs said to him My Noble Lord as you have commended your soul unto Christ so now offer up your hoary head cheerefully to God and lift up your self towards heaven In the name of God answered hee and so lifting up his head as well as hee could saith Lord Jesus into thy hands J commend my spirit and then his head being cut off hee fell down CHAP. LXV Procopius Dworzecski de Olbramowitz c. I. HAving heard the sentence of death he answered Doth the Emper●ur promise himselfe any thing when my h●ad is taken off Let him take it th●n The next day hee said unto the Minister of the Word I have had a contention all this night with the old Adam even so as it made me sweat But thanks be to my God by whose help my soule hath overcome all temptations He added this also O Almighty God I have commended my soul to thee do thou protect it and cherish it and withall strengthen thy servant that I may not be made a derision to my enemies by any fear of death And as thou wert wont to encourage the holy Martyrs so I strongly beleeve thou wilt comfort me 2. When hee was called out to execution hee readily answered Thanks be to my God who doth now call me to himself for him I have lived and for him will I die For because my Saviour hath therefore died and risen againe that he might bee Lord both of the living and the dead I know that this soule of mine shall live and my body shall bee raised like to his glorious body 3. Comming upon the scaffold he turned himself to the Imperiall Judges and said Tell Caesar that we now undergo his just judgement but that hee shall undergo the more grievous but yet just judgement of God And while he put off his cloathes hee gave his purse with an Hungarian Ducket to the Minister of the word Behold here my last riches and these which are unprofitable for mee I resigne to you 4. And when hee saw a piece

the third 1334. therefore every year in the 18. of April there was a solemne meeting at that place where a Church as yet stands and commemorations were vsually made of the Martyrs to the year 1613. which Woresowetz the chiefe master of the mint did in vaine endeavour to hinder at length it seased in yeare 1621. when persecution prevailed CHAP. XI John Krasa 1. THis was a chief Merchant of Prague who comming to trade at Preslaw a Town of Silesia where at that time Sigismund the Emperour and Fernandus the Popes Legate were met to consult about the carrying on the war against the Bohemians and upon a fit occasion in his Inne disputing strongly for the innocency of Husse who was unjustly condemned and for the partaking of the Eucharist in both kinds was taken and cast into prison 2. The next day Nicolas de Bethlehem a student was cast into the same prison who was sent by the inhabitants of Prague to Caesar at Preslaw by whom they declared themselves that if the Emperour would permit them the cup they would acknowledge him to be their King But Caesar was very cruell to the messenger 3. Krasa exceedingly encouraged him with many religious exhortations rejoycing that he had such a companion in his Martyrdome Oh my brother saith he what an honour is this that we are called to bear witnesse to the Lord Jesus Let us undergo with chearfulnesse so little trouble The fight is but short but the reward is eternall Let us remember our Lord what a cruell death hee under went for us and with what guiltlesse blood we are redeemed and what torments the Martyrs have patiently endured With these and the like words he was constantly exhorting him But when they were brought to execution and the ropes by which horses were to drag them through the City were tied to their feete Nicolas being terrified with the thoughts of death and fed by Fernandus who was then present with the hope of life presently yielded and recanted Husse his Doctrine which then began to be called Error 4. Krasa standing like an unshaken rock against all the perswasions of the Legate told them That all their hopes of any recantation from him were in vain Hee was drawne slowly through the streets the Legate at every turning inveighing against him and oftentimes commanding the hangman to stay crying to him Pitty your self and recant those errours which the Bohemians have so rashly spread abroad But he answered I am ready to dye for the Gospell of the Lord Jesus At length being brought half alive to the place of execution he was burnt This was done in the year 1420. March 14. and presently on the following Lords day being the 17 day of March the Legate commanded the excommunication of the Bohemians made by Pope Martin together with _____ to be stucke on the Church-gates and to be declared in the Pulpits CHAP. XII The Litomerician Martyrs PIchell the chief Magistrate of the City Litomericia a cruell and deceitfull man having taken four and twenty of the chief Citizens and among them his son in law put then in the highest Tower at Michaells gate At length having taken councell with some Captaines of Sigismunds and guarded with a band of Souldiers he commanded them to bee brought out half dead with hunger and cold and pronounces a sentence of death against them and causing some horses to be harnessed he sets them in carts and brings them to the bankes of Albis to drown them in the river 2. In the meane time there is a great concourse of people their Wives Children Kinsfolkes and friends crying and mourning The Consuls onely daughter comes wringing her hands and throwes her self down at her fathers feet beseeehing him to save her husbands life But her father harder than any rock commands her to leave weeping telling her she knew not what she asked What saith he cannot you have a worthier husband than this is she perceiving by these words that it was impossible to perswade him riseth Oh father saith she you shall never more espouse me to any So beating her breast and tearing her hair she followeth her husband with the rest of the people 3. When the Martyrs were brought to the bankes of Albis they are taken down from the carts and while the Ferries are preparing for there was not then a bridge over Albis as there is now they with loud voices call heaven earth to witness their innocency and take their last farewell of their wives children and friends exhorting them to constancy and zeale and cleave rather to the word of God than mans inventions and at last pray for their enemies and commend their soules to God Then being taken into the boats and brought into the middle of the river they are cast in with their hands and feet bound together and are drowned Some Officers stood upon the banks with iron forks and poles watching that none of them might be cast on the banks and saved and stabbing those that were rouled to the bank although they were half dead 4. The Consuls daughter seeing her husband leapt into the river and clasping him about the middle endeavoured to save him from drowning But shee being not able to wade by reason of the depth nor hee to unlose himselfe and having swallowed down much water she sank and was drowned together with her husband The next day they were taken up embracing one another and buried both in one grave This was done 30. day of May in the year 1421. 5. This History was shortly after engraven in Golden letters on the Church of All Saints at Litomericia for an eternall memoriall and was also to be seen in a table before St. Michaels gate and now lately in the year 1623. 8 of July was raz'd out by the command of George Michna a Commissioner for Reformation CHAP. XIII Wenceslaus Preacher at Arnostowitz with eight more burned Conrade Arch-Bishop of Prague converted 1. IN the same year when Albert of Austria sent Auxiliaries to Prague to Sigismund his father in law a party of his horse at Arnostowitz a village neer Milizine brought Wenceslaus the Curate of that place a Divine both dear to God and men with his Officiary three Country-men and four boyes the eldest of them not above eleven years of age to their Collonel at Bystrick where the quarters were The Clergy-men were apprehended for administring the other for receiving the Sacrament under both kinds that is to say of Bread and Wine The Bishop commanded Wenceslaus to abjure for the time to come the administration of the Sacrament under both kinds which if he should refuse to do he would expiate his rashnesse by fire To whom the Pastor returned a resolute and gallant answer But the Gospell doth teach me otherwise so also your owne Missalls have it you must approve what I teach or blot it out of the Bible The standers by being ex●sperated by this liberall reply one of the Troopers strook Wenceslaus on his face with

as a little after the Inhabitants of Pisek was begun in bloud For when the Citizens with a small force couragiously resisted for three dayes the Imperiall Army passing that way then being about to yield themselves they came down from the walls and forts and prepared to carry out the keys the enemy furiously assaulting the gate broke it open and first kil'd the Maior of the City bringing the keyes and then other men whom they met and the youth that within three houres one thousand six hundred and sixty Citizens were slain scarce ten whom flight or some deeper lurking place had saved from their fury It was a fearfull spectacle to see carcases thrown about through the streets and houses exceedingly dirty and shamefully naked neither was there any one for some dayes to bury the dead bodies At length two pious Matrons Christina and Beni●na sisters of Alexander Rumpalius a Citizen and Alderman of Prague put to their hands and bring their husbands and Maximilian Rumpalius their brother an Alderman to the grave which they had digg'd with their own hands and cover them with earth perswading those that remained with their example and speech to the imitation of their piety 2. This City when it begun again to be inhabited by the Survivers and others flocking from other places the Emperour gave to the Prince of Eckenberg together with the Towns subject to it Baworow and Strunkonitz and all the Villages In the year 1625. it was promised them by the Commissioners of reformation that if they would become Catholicks their Liberty Priviledges and Towns with the Villages should be restored They refusing were prohibited from their works and trades and so put the disobedient persons men women sonnes and daughters in divers prisons and miserably afflicted them four whole moneths At length being made Catholicks nothing was restored to them that there might not want a testimony that these bloudy promisers were his progeny who promiseth all things and performeth nothing 3. But what need we relate more It is sufficiently apparent by these how wickedly cruelly and impudently they proceeded against free-men For whatsoever was done with the other free Cities not mentioned here was made up of the same impostures deceits tyranny and impudence We shall adde some examples how they handled the mixt multitude CHAP. 103. The Proceedings against the Common-People WHen the Shepheards are removed and the dogs fled how easie is it for the Wolves to assault the flock but yet Satan here found some obstructions that he was not able as he hoped to blow away all by one breath we will relate some of these things briefly and by degrees intermixing some particular examples for the credit of the history 2. First They removed every where the Ministers of the Word even when they had not any of their own to succeed then they endeavoured to take the Bibles and other profitable books from the hands of the Lay-men both for this end that heresie as they called it might grow out of fashion and the heat of Religion might grow cold 3. The Monks being afterwards brought in did not presently thunder but did deal very fairly beseeching and confirming the truth of their religion with oaths and dreadfull cursings of themselves promising a firm peace the successe of affaires and the whole blessing of God professing also their great hope of the kindnesse of the Emperour and their Lords and the diminishing of their burdens and they also themselves being but little liberall in such a grievous dearth of provision did offer either money or corn if they would change their religion by which stratagem some are deceived examples of this thing are extant every where and also in Kossimberg Cerket where when a Monk being more greedy of praise for the conversion of Hereticks or rather of meriting heaven did promise to every one that confessed a bushell of wheat the poorer sort ran to him bringing their confessions to the Priest for corn he being afraid of his Granary lest it should faile if he did so largely distribute resolved to dispense more sparingly and gives to one of a mean estate that came to him but halfe the measure but he taking away his share returns and requires the rest The Monk denying him What sayes he is my soule more vile then the rest so he departed angerly Is not this grosly to make merchandise of the souls of men as Peter fore-told or rather to bring the miserable common people to such a passe as they should think gain to be godlinesse which Paul in the first of Timothy notes of certain false teachers and men of corrupt minds and averse from the truth 4. But when they saw that few were drawn unto them by their fox-like subtilty they returned to their wolvish cruelty and compelled some by force to frequent their Masse and therefore Catalogues are made through all the Churches and punishment to those that were absent the Sexton being to give notice 5. If any went privately to the Neighbour-Churches of the Protestants while there were some yet remaining or to their private religious Exercises being known they were fined imprisoned and whipt sometimes souldiers were suborned who might distribute and ruine the Protestant meetings by their invasion of which thing I will relate one example when that the year 1623. was brought about when as much people had met upon the Feast of the Nativity of Christ in the Temple near to Kutiburg and the Village Wysoke in the Oratory of the Barons of Dona Beneda and Lazgeausky Bohemian Noble-men Collonels of Horse remaining in the Garison of Kutiburg on a sudden flie hither with their scame incompasse the Temple rush in and draw from the Altar the Minister George Barthius strip off his clothes and carry him away prisoner but yet he escapt and cast the holy bread upon the earth and poure out the wine and trample upon it They then take away with them whatsoever stuffe was ordained to holy uses they stript persons of both Sexes so that it happened that some being utterly naked running homewards in a deep snow through many furlongs being vehemently hurt through the sharpnesse of the cold died Some were wounded others among so many glittering swords fell into diseases by reason of fear what besides they did with the women-kind in the Temple modesty forbids me to speak the spoiles as if taken from an enemy publickly sold at Kutiburg and in their feasts they merrily drunk out of the cup which was taken away and all without any punishment I forbear to speak of more of the like cases 6. They afterwards tried to weaken their courages by threatning greater evils For an example of which a command was given by the Prince Lichtenstein to the Captain of Pirglisky 1624. on the 20th of December That whosoever should deny to obey their orders in forsaking their hereticall errours whether they were men or women old men or young men free men or forraigners in-mates or servants he should send them to