The Roaring Lion: Prophetic Decision on the Bohemian War

as if rising up—as if against his enemies. For although GOD punished His people severely in times past on account of their sins, they nevertheless remained His Holy People and His Holy City, precisely because they were called by His name. For the sake of this name, He was also merciful to them again; for a father who disciplines his son does not, for that reason, reject or cast him off. Instead, he loves him all the more, so that he does not go down to destruction with the godless. Thus, we are now God’s holy ones because we are called by His name, and His kingdom is within us according to His Son and His Spirit.

On the other hand, the false Lutherans Followers of the Augsburg Confession, though here the author distinguishes between "true" and "false" ones based on their political allegiances. and Laodiceans A biblical reference to the "lukewarm" church in Revelation 3:14–22; the author uses it to describe those who are spiritually indifferent or compromise with the enemy. also pass themselves off as the saints; they alone, above all others, bless themselves and love God, saying they possess the pure religion. But they claim the Bohemians have become Calvinist Followers of the Reformed tradition of John Calvin, often the political and theological rivals of the strict Lutherans in this period., so that being a Bohemian and being a Calvinist are interchangeable terms original: "termini convertibiles". On this account, the blasphemer Doctor Hoë Matthias Hoë von Hoënegg (1580–1645), a powerful Lutheran court preacher in Dresden who famously hated Calvinists more than Catholics. in Dresden has raged violently and cursed the Bohemians. He has also written so zealously against the so-called Calvinists, and in such an extreme manner, that it could not be worse; for he, as the true Araßords? This term is likely a corruption or a specific polemical nickname for a stubborn defender of orthodoxy., intends to prove how the so-called Calvinists are worse than Turks and Arians Historical heretics who denied the divinity of Christ; in this period, being called "worse than a Turk" was the ultimate insult to one's faith.—yes, even worse than the Devil himself.

That they are not the true saints, they prove themselves—irrefutably. For the saints of the Most High are indeed persecuted, overcome, and killed by the Beast A reference to the Antichrist or the oppressive secular/religious power described in the Book of Revelation.. These people cannot be those saints, because they stand with and alongside the Beast and the Whore of Rome A common Protestant pejorative for the Roman Catholic Church.; they hold with the Papists Catholics. and help to persecute and kill the saints of GOD themselves. This is shown by all their actions and their clear writings, in which they defend with their teeth original: "mordicus defendiren"; an idiom meaning to defend tooth and nail or stubbornly. why one should side with the Papists. For the Lutherans have now become Popish, and because of this, they even sang the "Thee, O God, we praise" original: "Te Deum laudamus"; a traditional hymn of joy and thanksgiving, here used ironically to suggest they are celebrating the defeat of fellow Protestants. themselves.

To speak of this both outwardly and according to the Mystery: all so-called Calvinists in each and every place where they have to deal and struggle with their enemies belong to the saints. By these enemies they are also killed, as has recently happened especially in Switzerland and France Likely referring to the persecution of Huguenots in France and religious conflicts in the Swiss Cantons.. These so-called Calvinists call themselves the Reformed, for they are more sensible in several articles of faith (as they are called).