to be ſlaughtred without diſtinction of ſex or age, that there might not be any remainders of to rebellious and Hereticall a Nation. To whom Cæſar anſwered, that hope of favour was given them by the Duke of Bavaria, but there would not afterwards want meanes whereby to quell the Hæreſie and rebelions deſires of ſo barbarous a nation. What thoſe meanes were is manifeſt, by the event and practice: which ſhall now be declared but compendiouſly and briefly.
4. For if all the cunning Impoſters and deceits, or the cruell preſsures and vexations which they uſed ſhould be reckoned up: it would require a ſharper wit than the Dove-like ſimplicity of our nation is capable of, and vaſter volumnes ſhould be then written, than our preſent purpoſe permitts. That which the Evangeliſt ſpake, If the workes of Christ ſhould every one be written, the world would not contain thoſe bookes, may be alſo ſaid of Antichriſt, that his evill actions have beene managed with ſo much craft and malice, that the world can hardly containe them. This we proteſt in the ſight of God, that we have had good proofe for thoſe things which we have gathered and ſhal now relate cleerly though every thing is not demonſtrated by particular inftances, partly becauſe of my deſigned brevity, and partly becauſe all examples cannot be gathered while the perſecution remains.
