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The Bohemian Perſecution.
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of the Rogue before mentioned: and that they were in danger, beſeeching his friends that they would bee circumſpect and have a regard of themſelves. There was in the company of theſe men that were warned to appeare, two Burgo-maſters, learned men and Mrs. of Arts, by name George Kizelius and Henry Daniel, of Semania, Upon whom ſeeing the reſt depend, they did incourage both themſelves and others exceedingly, and did exhort them that they ſhould not at all value thoſe imaginary terrors. By and by Kezelius is called out, and what with ſundry flatteries, and what with threatnings, he is wearied ſo long, till at laſt unawares he deſires time to conſider. They being contented with this demaund, commands Semaninus to be ſent for, who being certified concerning the wavering of Kezelius, began the more to bee reſolved: and when an old man; one George Dernikarz, propounded him as an example for his imitation, he ſptc in the old mans face, ſaying, Traitor: is this your conſtancy. Alſo he goes on, and preſents himſelf to the Reformers unmoveable as as a rock, as alſo all the reſt that followed, at length Kezelus, conſidering that his failing was greater in Gods ſight than poſſible it could be in mans, repenting himſelf, and with a very poſitive anſwer tooke away all that hope which they conceived of him, and with the reſt is ſent to priſon.

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