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The Bohemian Perſecution.
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ſome among them to bee defendors of this liberty.

3. The Orders therefore reform the conſiſtory, and for quietneſſe ſake they chuſe 3 Huſſites, 3 Brethren, and 3 Goſpellers, to theſe they adde the 3 Profeſſours of the Univerſity, and command theſe twelve choſen men to order all affaires concerning Church Government throughout the Kingdome. And becauſe it was generally agreed that the confederates ſhould bee caſhiered, and Church government bee according to the rule of Gods law. Elias Shudim of Semanin a Huſſite is choſen firſt Adminiftrator, and afterward to bee elected out of the ordinary ſort of Miniſters. But concerning the brethren it is concluded (the order of whole diſcipline was granted for the better reconciliation) that they ſhould have their Seniour, being the next Colleague of the Adminiſtrator, ſo long as the diverſity of this order yet in a friendly concord ſhould endure. To whom ar Prague a Church is given by the Univerſity, as it were to the true off-spring of Hus called Bethlehem, famous for the preaching of Hus. All which things were done with the publick acclamation of all good people, and all things rung out with divine praiſes, and were faſtned to the doors of the church theſe lines.

The Temples ope’d, the Lion joyes, that Raph, To Maxamilian kept his promiſed faith. &c.

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