while after the thirty of October the like example of charity was ſhowed to one whom the Paſtor did uſe with the like cruelty, for a little ſonne of his baptized elſe-where.
10. Why ſhould I produce more examples of their cruelty, O that it were lawfull to write upon the fore-heads of theſe men, that which Semirames is reported to have commanded, ſhould bee writ upon his cheſts, If thou hadst not beene a wicked man thou, wouldest not have diſturbed the quiet of the dead.
11. Yet perhaps it would not bee farre from our purpoſe, to hint out how they did expreſſe their rage upon the very name of Frederick (meerely for the hatred of that moſt pious Prince) who was an Evangelicall King; for an Evangelicall people, in the year 1622 a Citizen of new-Prague by name Mr. Iohn Libertine, becauſe that he had given the name of Frederick to his little ſonne, was at firſt without all reaſon tormented with the numerous ſouldiery, and for a puniſhment, was commanded to pay 500 Dollars, it was a moſt uſuall thing for them to pull in pieces the pictures of Frederick, to trample them under their feet to digge out their eyes, and ignominiouſly to handle all thoſe with whom they were found; ſo that it was almoſt a capitall offence even to think of Frederick.
Chap. 106.
