The History of the Bohemian Persecution/Chapter 80
Chap. 80.
Nathaniel Wodniansky.
WHen the Jesuites solicited him to Apostacy, he said, you take away our lives under a pretence of Rebellion, and not content with that, Do you seeke our souls? Glut your selves with the sight of our bloud and be at rest. But we shall leave stings in your consciences.
2. When the day before his execution his son (Iohn Wodniansky a married man and a Citizen of Prague) bidding him farewell, wept and said, My father, if hope of life should be offered you upon conditioon of Apostacy, I pray you be mindfull of keeping your faith to Christ, He answersd, It is very acceptable to me my sonne, to be exhorted to constancy by you: but what hath come into your mind that you should suspect such a thing of me? I rather advise and exhort you, that you would follow your fathers steps, and exhort your brethren, sisters and children to that constancy, whereof I leave them an example.
3. He was condemned to be hang’d: but he knew not that a peculiar gibebt was set up for him in the midle of the Market-place. When he was comanded to go from the Stage, he turning himself to Kutnaur & Susickg hanging out of the window, he said, O my dear fellow-Souldiers, how do I grieve that I am separated from you, and carried to a place more abominable! But when the Minister of the word said, The greater the disgrace is for Christ, the greater should be the glory with Christ; he tooke courage and patiently under-went the disgrace of the Gallowes.