To the Reader.
knowing to what viciſitudes the Church millitant is ſubject (as the Moon which ſometimes increaſes and ſometines decreaſes, ſometimes with a full countenance ſhe defuſeth her light, ſometimes the ſuffers a ſad Eclipſe) they may be the leſſe troubled in future times, that they may ſeaſonably prepare their minds for all hazards, and may learn to ſeek ſecurities and bleſſings, not under the Sun, but in Heaven, for this reaſon from the first Originall, we have have briefly deliniated all the most famous mutations of the Bohemian Church, eſpecially ſince the story of our Martyrs under Gentiliſme, Papacy, and fained Proteſtantiſme is communicated but to a few; for beſide Hus, Jerom of Prague, and Miliſius (whom the Catologue of the witneſſes of truth remembers) the book of Martyrs is ſilent of other ſufferers: we thought good therefore by this occaſion to join old ſtories with new, comprehending them both with as much brevity as poſſible, and faithfully to declare them in a Historical ſtile; the former ſtories we have
