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2. When the day before his execution his ſon (Iohn Wodniansky a married man and a Citizen of Prague) bidding him farewell, wept and ſaid, My father, if hope of life ſhould be offered you upon conditioon of Apoſtacy, I pray you be mindfull of keeping your faith to Chriſt, He anſwersd, It is very acceptable to me my ſonne, to be exhorted to conſtancy by you: but what hath come into your mind that you ſhould ſuſpect ſuch a thing of me? I rather adviſe and exhort you, that you would follow your fathers ſteps, and exhort your brethren, ſiſters and children to that conſtancy, whereof I leave them an example.

3. He was condemned to be hang’d: but he knew not that a peculiar gibebt was ſet up for him in the midle of the Market-place. When he was comanded to go from the Stage, he turning himſelf to Kutnaur & Suſickg hanging out of the window, he ſaid, O my dear fellow-Souldiers, how do I grieve that I am ſeparated from you, and carried to a place more abominable! But when the Miniſter of the word ſaid, The greater the diſgrace is for Chriſt, the greater ſhould be the glory with Chriſt; he tooke courage and patiently under-went the diſgrace of the Gallowes.

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