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The Bohemian Perſecution.
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ny allurements to be perſwaded from it: for he tels ther that therein is the readieſt and moſt infallible way of Salvation and aſſurance of the mercy of God by the merits of Chriſt, being mindful of him & of that which ſhe had heard from him that he had tried all Religion, and compared them with the Scriptures, and that he found none more ſure & ſolid, than that which he was about to ſeal with his bloud, that we attain Salvation by the bloud of the Lamb, which he is certains very ſhortly to find. Of which glory if ſhe would be partaker, ſhe ſhould perſevere in the ſame faith. Secondly, he prayed that ſhe would uſe more clemency to his Subjects, and rather eaſe, then overcharge them with burthens; laſt of all to command that ſhe would have a care of her Children and bring them up in pure Religion, otherwiſe if through careleſneſſe they were ſeduced, he would cauſe them to appeare before Chriſt his tribunal. This he ſpake with much zeal and ſolemn proteſtations; but this meer woman being perfidious to God, her conſcience, her children, and her ſubjects, obſerving nothing of all this. For within a while after ſhe did marry an Apoſtate, committed her ſonnes to the tuition of Jeſuites, ſhe her ſelf ſwerved from her Religion, and did exerciſe tyranny over the ſoules and bodies of her ſubjects.

3. Being called forth to execution, he ſaid, I have travelled ſo many Countries, ſo many barbarons nations, have undergone ſo many dangers by ſea and

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