as a gift of our Lord God Almighty for these latter times and days of the Antichrist.
Numerous men of almost all estates – the estate of Christ's priests, the estate of the Lords and the estate of the Knights, the estate of the Burghers as well as of many learned and common people – all of them cherish, accept and honor the truths of these books and other writings of Peter Chelcicky; and they do not slight him because he is a layman, not learned in the Latin tongue. For though he was not a master of the seven arts, he certainly was a practitioner of the eight beatitudes and of all the divine commandments, and was therefore a real Czech doctor, well versed in the Law of the Lord without aberration from the truth. In him was fulfilled the word of the prophet saying, Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, and teachest of thy law, O Lord,2 and in another Psalm, O God, thou hast taught me from my youth and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. Yea, even to old age and gray hairs, do not forsake me, O God.3 And even our Lord Jesus says in the Gospel of Saint John, All men will be taught by God: Everyone that listens to the Father a and has learned from him, will come to me.4 O, how happy and blessed are the disciples who are taught in such a way by
