all this from the mouth of the Baron Schmidias in his Caſtle at Kunſtat, where the good old man, being threeſcore and ten yeares old, ſhewed me the chaine, and enſigne dedicated to the Order of Peace, & weeping ſaid, this, that religions and godly Cæſar made with his owne hands, and preſently after the malediction of godly Cæſar, towards whom we were ungratefull, falls upon us.
5. That purpoſe concerning the founding the Order of Peace, without all doubt was ſo pleaſing, that it is a wonder that it went not forward. Some peradventure may ſuppoſe, that they much erred from Politique counſels, that this buſineſſe was not otherwiſe, and by others begun, but if we looke higher, they are the juſt judgments of God, bringing this whole nation and all Germanie to puniſhment, and ſuffering our enemies to fill up the meaſure of their fathers. For they fild it up to the top, and utterly undid us. We ſhall collect this hiſtory by parcells, we cannot give you yet the full. Becauſe his Antichriſtian plots forged in ſecret, which we have rejected, being outward are manifeſt, we muſt expect that God would bring to light the inward
6. But we under Mathew being intrapped, did not perceive our ruine, nay we exceedingly did rejoyce, as if the liberty of our Conſciences were well provided for. When behold new on all ſides contrivances of the enemies come to light, but never more
