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But after that being again possessed by such a like evil spirit, is returned to his first errors, and is driven from all men, as he is well worthy, and doth serve yet at this present day in all places where he goeth, for a testimony of the wrath of God against all ⟨image 6⟩such as do resist the truth. Shortly after there was a certain remnant of Seruetistes, who declared themselves, as one being a lawyer of those quarters: who afterward for the like cause was driven from the university of Tubing by the right noble Duke of Wirtemberg, and because he did continue in his blasphemies, for which he had been chastised by imprisonments and suffered to recant by the judgement of the said Lords of Berne, with this man there was confederate a certain man of Calabria named Valentine Gentle, an other of Sardegna, a Piedmontois named John Paul Alciat, a Physician of Saluces named George Blandrata. These men wrought under ground as well as they could, showing their blasphemies against the three persons in one divine Essence and being, until the time that this faithful servant of God withstanding them, some vanished away, others of them acknowledging their blasphemies, have demanded mercy at the hands of God & of the Seigniory. But shortly after, those wicked ones returned (contrary to their oath) to their blasphemies, & in the end with their complices conveyed themselves into Poland, where they have stirred up and do yet at ⟨image 7⟩this day, innumerable troubles, yet have they notwithstanding even to & in the very place where they are, felt & perceived what the force was of the faithful servant of God, of whom we speak: by whose writings the Churches of Poland have been so fortified, that the Faithful have been greatly established, & the enemies of the truth so weakened, that with the help of God, their ruin is at hand. Behold these are the principal combats that he hath fought within, for the doctrine, which is much more hard to sustain than to recite, as the Books shall testify to the posterity. As for the other enemies, they have always assailed him from a far of, but not so far of, but that he hath touched them more nigh than they would willingly: his learned works against the Anabaptists and Libertines can make sufficient declaration.

But after that being againe possessed by suche a lyke euill spirite, is retourned to his first errours, and is driuen from all men, as hee is well worthy, and doth serue yet at this present daye in all places where he goeth, for a testimonie of the wrath of God against all