The Roaring Lion: Prophetic Decision on the Bohemian War

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Whether also Just Judges passed the Sentence against the Saints, and how it shall go for the same?

As it was granted by GOD to the Beast to overcome the Saints, it also undertook to kill them; namely, the Roman Emperor FERDINAND II, had the Bohemian Estates summoned one after another to Prague, placed them in prison there, and waited until such time as it seemed good to him to execute them. Now, when the matter was to be put into effect, the sentence was pronounced over them, which proceeded in this manner: Our arch-enemies, the Papists A derogatory term for Roman Catholics, used here to suggest they are followers of the Pope rather than of Christian scripture., when they were to pass the sentence, also took into their decision original: "Decisionem"; a formal legal conclusion or judgment. a few Evangelicals In this context, "Evangelical" refers to the Protestant members of the commission, likely included to provide a facade of inter-confessional legitimacy., who were to help pass the sentence alongside and with them, so that it might not be said that they had done it alone. But truly, who would not be able to see the Fox and recognize the ravening Wolf, which wishes to be hidden in its Lion’s skin? For who among the Evangelicals would have dared to say that the Estates were in the right, without that same person being subjected to the same punishment original: "pœna"; the legal penalty or sentence. as the others? Certainly, it is all too true, for there stood the fierce Beast and devoured everything that came before it, if they did not worship it. Furthermore, a Papist was also executed, as if the law had proceeded over one just as well as over the other, without any partiality. But the Devil does here just as he did with Christ in the Passion; there he could find no real cause anywhere, and led Christ now here, now there, until he finally brought him to the Cross through the cursed Pilate, who at last, when he had already pronounced the sentence, washed his hands and wished to be innocent of the blood of this Just Man, shifting it onto the Jews, who yet expressly testified that they were not permitted to kill anyone. Thus, they wished to justify this proceeding original: "action"; the legal process or trial of the Bohemian nobles. as well; but how it happened according to the law, let us now hear.

Firstly, if the non-Catholics truly wish to be such wise and understanding people, and without their own guilt in this proceeding, why did they then not, according to right and equity, let the sentence over the prisoners be spo-