ſcourgings, tortures, and wrackings, &c. being invited by him to a communication, was delivered to the Prætor, and was kept in priſon until that day Ferdinand was choſen King, but afterwards he was baniſhed the city. Very Godly letters of that man dated out of the priſon are yet extant.
CHA A. XXX.
I. IN the year, 1526 on the 9 day of December Nicholas Wrzetenar, being well ſtricken in yeares and withall a learned man, is accuſed of Piccardiſme, before the Senat by Jacobus Parochus, and appearing according to his citation, he was demanded by Zabera what he did beleeve concerning the Sacrament of the Altar, anſwered. That which the Evangeliſts and St. Paul taught mee to believe. He that at that time ſate as chiefe asked him; beleeveſt thou that Chriſt is there preſent having fleſh and bloud, but he anſwered, I beleeve that when the Miniſters of Gods word doth declare to the faithful congregation the benefits which are received by the death of Christ, the bread and wine are then made the ſupper of the Lord, wherein they are made partakers of the body and bloud of Chriſt, and the benefits received by the death of Chriſt. What
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