6. 4. 6. Be not deceived, God will not be mocked: Gal. 6. 7.
6. But ſince this is the condition of our countrey in general, we may cry out with the Prophet, Unleſſe the Lord had left us a very ſmall remnant, wee ſhould have been as Sodome, and we ſhould have been like unto Gomorra, Iſa. 1. 9. by whom the field of Gods Church in Bohemia being planted again, might yeeld an acceptable harveſt to God: for there were many went away, who had rather cleave to Gods Worſhip, than to flatter Ieroboam, and by their hlthy Idols break their Covenant with God, and of theſe there are above twelve thouſand.
7. Among the Nobility, and Knights, in the year 1630. according to compute calculated as exactly as could be, there were found in baniſhment, 185 families, which had gone out out of Bohemia, and each family 1. 2. 3. 10. 20. yea, there were found unto 50. male perſons, as in the families of Caplirzor, Gerſtoref, and Kebler.
8. And by Gods mercy, there was a good part of the Miniſtery found (but I doe not know how to give you a juſt account of them) among all the brethren, I am certaine, that about 200, who were alive in the year 1620, in Bohemia, and in Moravia, there were alive about 96, the reſt in the ſpace of 10 years, either by ſword or peſtilence, or diſeaſes contracted by frights, and cold, or famin, or priſon had deſtroyed.
