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12. In Hungaria the Lord ſtirred up the heart of the moſt illuſtrous George Rakozius now Prince of Tranſilvania, to make his Dominions of Puchovia and Ladneſeus as a ſanctuary to the baniſhed, whether alſo ſome went from it ſelf, as alſo to the Dominions of Count Trurion, Count Eleshazius, the Lord Revius and others.

13. In Sileſia under the Government of the Emperor God ſtrengthened the heart of Iohn Christian Duke of Briggs, that he durſt rather obey God than men, who entertained in his Duchy many of the baniſhed Bohemians and Moravians, to whom, as alſo to the reſt under the heat of the day: Iſajah 16. 3. 4. 5. Take counſell, execute judgment, make thy ſhadow as the night, in the midst of the noon day, hide not the outcasts, bewray not him that wandereth, let mine outcaſts dwell with thee, Moab be thou a covert to them from the ſpoiler, &c.

14. Beſides thoſe before named, who ſhunned Apoſtacy by their baniſhment, In very Bohemia it ſelf, and Moravia, the midst of theſe abomisations, God reſerved to himſelf more than 7000, who did not bow their knees to Baal, nor kist him with their mouth. I do not mean Infants, who cannot diſtinguiſh between their right hand and their left: but men of growth, who in many places, under moderate Governours, did not undergo ſuch a bitter perſecution as the other, but kept conſtantly in the faith: as for ex-

ample