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out of it, and writ this, They have drunk up the dregs anda ll. At the lintell of the doore they writ this ſentance in golden letters, [My houſe is a houſe of prayer, but not thy houſe O moſt curſed Calvin.] They carried out of the Church the moſt ancient Pictures of Litomeritius, Hus, and Ierom, and ſo burned them; afterwards they ſhewed their rage againſt the holy Martyrs.

4. How they ſet upon the books every one perhaps have already heard, a thouſand bibles (that I might not mention other good books) were taken away by theſe Furies, that Antichriſt might ſhew himſelf nothing inferiour to Antiochus (1 Macabees 1. 5, 9.) commonly they burned them (onely the Count of Nahud that moſt perverſe Apoſtate having covered his holy books with ſilk and Gold (for hee was ſumptuous & proud) having taken off onely the gold and the ſilver, commands that they ſhould bee buried in the ſink (himſelf being preſent ) but the manner was diverſe, ſome having taken them away from the Chriſtians did burne them privately at home ſimulating the modeſty of Joochim (6. Jer. 23.) others brought them in baskets to the market-place, as was done at Fulneck; others brought them in carts without the walls, as was done at Zalicum and Frutnovia: others brought them in heaps to the Gallows, and other places deſtined for the puniſhment of mallefactors, as at Hraditium & ſo in great heaps burned

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