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The Bohemian Perſecution.
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diſhonoured the Sacrament, not onely by refuſing to riſe, but afterwards by turning his back againſt it.

2. In the ſame yeare on the 26. of February, Martin Loquis, was apprehended being accuſed for renewing the error of the Waldenſes, in the ſolemnity of the Sacrament, and foraffirming by a horrible prophanenesthat both the bread & the cup were to be given into the hands of the communicants, but by the interceſſion of the Taborenes, he was delivered from his bondage, and the better to give way to the envy & the madnes of the times he removed into Moravia, having taken with him Procopius Iednook for his aſſociat: but being diſcovered as they travelled through Chrudim, they were taken by Captain Denis, & being both manacled and fettered with Irons, they were examined, what their Judgement was concerning the Sacrament, Martin made anſwer. The body of Chriſt is in heaven, for he hath but one body, not many. The Captain not enduring (forſooth) ſo great a Blaſphemy, out of the liberallity of his choller, did give him a boxe on the ear, and called for the hangman to devour the Hereticks with fire, but Ambroſe the Paſtor of Hrada being happily preſent, he deſired that theſe two men might be beſtowed on him, who for fifteen dayes kept them priſoners at Hrada, indeavouring to make them acknowledge, and to cant their errors: but when he found them more reſolute in their opinion, he ſent them to Raudnice

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