twice travelled from Boruſſia into Moravia (where the Miniſters forced from Bohemia did lurk & had gone through polonia the greater, in ſome places (as occaſion offered it ſelfe) hee preached the Goſpell with ſuch ſucceſs, that he gained many of the nobility and in theſe the pallatines and Caſtellanes, and within fewe years erected about twenty Churches in polonia the greater: and this was the firſt originall of Churches in Polonia, which as yet retaine the Cerimonies of the bohemian Confeſſion.
3. The enemies ſo rejoyced for the impriſonment of John Auguſta, as the philiſtims did when they had taken Sampſon; for he was a man renowned through the whole Country, not ſo much for that he was the chief biſhop among the brethren, but for his diſputations both by words and writings with his adverſaries the Calixtines, who as Luther, the pope in Germany, ſo he confounded his adverſaries in bohemia. For he was ſometimes Luther’s auditor, and did often afterwards receive Letters from him. by which meanes the enemies laid all the blame of the diſobedience of the Orders towards Ferdinand, upon Augusta alone, as if he with his had cauſed (the reſt of the Order cunningly being drawn into the faction) that Ferdinand being driven out, they might advance lohn Frederick the Elector of Saxony unto the Kingdome; which had aſſuredly been brought about, if Cæſar had been overthrown in war.
