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mian language, Beda, Beda, Beda, but ſo as thoſe that ſtood in one corner heard the ſame things ſounding from an oppoſite place; when they went thither, from another part; ſo that it ſeemed altogether prodigious. This truly hapned and was done for three nights together, as is manifeſt by the Teſtimonies of eminent men, who themfelves were then preſent, and became Auditors thereof (amongſt whom was John Wodizby a noble Lawyer.) The like voice was heard at Wienna as recorded in a publicke writing.

19. Nor is it unknown, how that in theſe times certaine perſons as in trances, declared in divers places by hidden revelation what horrible puniſhments ſhould attend the Tyrants and perſecutors. Amongſt whom was Chriſtina Ponitovia, a Bohemian virgin, whoſe viſions writ with her owne hand, and tranſlated verbatim into Dutch, are now extant in print, ſhe being commanded by him that revealed the things unto her, writ alſo to Walſteinius the Prince, certaine dehortatory letters, not to perſecute the faithfull under paine of temporall and eternal deſtruction; ſhe ſent them alſo to Gizinia, delivered them into the hands of the Princeſs, to the great aſtoniſhment of her and Gynecius her chiefe uſher, ſhe falling into an extaſie at the ſame time in their ſight. The letters before they were delivered to the Prince, were opened and read by Jeſuites, who laughed at

them