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The Bohemian Perſecution.
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them: but you ſhall ſee O good men! that the innocent aſhes of theſe liveleſſe Martyrs being ſcattered, through heaven and earth, will ſpread further the doctrine which you would have aboliſhed.

5. The adverſary being unmindfull of Ovid;

Lions vent not their rage upon the dead:
And the fight ends when foes are vanquiſhed.
But ſavage Wolves and Bears not onely prey
Upon the living, but the dead aſſay.

imitating the cruelty of Wolves and Beares counted a part of their glory thus to expreſſe their rage and madneſſe upon the dead continually. It is a wonderfull beaſtiallity, not to be able to endure the living above ground nor the dead under ground, there are many examples of thoſe, who were by theſe pulled out of their graves, and had their members burned at Horaſdoviſius, in the year 1621. The monaſtery which the Bohemian Brethren for a long time poſſeſſed was reſtored to the Monkes, who opened the graves of the Miniſters of the word, firſt of all the bones of Iacob Welchi (both in name and in truth, two worthy men buried in the year 1600.) were taken up, which Severinus Budetius the Warden did with an iron barre, beat in pieces, uſing

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