thought not evill of the Brotherhood, but being commanded by his ſuperiors, he could not but put his charge in execution.
3. The King believing the flanderous accuſations of theſe evill men, that the Brothers attempted ſome ſedition, as the Thaborites before them, he commanded the holy man Gregory to be tortured, who being tranſported into an extaſie, did feele no ſence of paine at all, and being believed by the Tormentors to be dead, he was taken downe from the Rack. His Unckle Rokizane comming to him (for he heard he dyed on the Rack) did with many teares lament him, repeating againe, and againe, O my Gregory, would I had bin in thy place, but he after ſome houres comming againe to himſelfe, revealed the Viſion which he had ſeene, which was, that he was brought into a moſt pleaſant field, in the middle whereof, there ſtood a tree loaden with fruit, on which divers Birds of ſeverall kinds, ſitting on the branches, did feed, and in the middeſt of them there ſtood a young man, who did ſo rule them with his rod, that not one of them did move or ſtirre out of order. No doubt but by this Revelation, God ſhewed him the Image of that little Church, of which he was as Patriarck. He ſaw alſo three, other men who ſeemed to be keepers of the ſaid tree, whom ſixe yeares afterward, when by ſuffrages they were choſen to be over-ſeers in his Church, he witneſsed that in this Viſion he had ſeene,
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