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The Bohemian Perſecution.
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and inſtructions of Catholicks, or elſe to be ſhut up in Monaſteries. And this was a cauſe of many groanes and teares to the godly, when their Noblemens Sonnes and Daughters (even marriageable mayds) we pulled from the lapp of their Mothers, Aunts and Uncles, and thruſt into the Jeſuites Colledges, or the Monkes cells: Their goods were taken out of the hands of their lawful tutors, and managed by Papiſts.

6. The fawning craftineſſe of theſe ſeducers, whereby they deceived unwary perſons, and did more hurt then by their rigour and terrours. As often as any one that did well know the foundations of religion, came before theſe reformers to be examined, they granted many things, and permitted moſt of the foundations to be believed, yea even the Article concerning juſtification by faith: ſaying that this one thing was required of them, to give obedience to the Church, and to acknowledge the Roman Biſhop to be a viſible Head of the Church, ſeeing it was neceſſary for good orders ſake; ſo the ſimpler ſort ſuppoſing that they were not conſtrained to any other faith then that which they had learnt, thought they might with a ſafe conſcience promiſe that outward obedience. If they ſaw any one ſprung from a more noble family, or to be either the ſole, or with a few others, remainder of the race, or in

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