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he would recant his doctrines or suffer death,

he accepted the martyr's fate.

The grace of God sustained him. During the

weeks of suffering that passed before his final

sentence, heaven's peace filled his soul. “I

write this letter,” he said to a friend, “in my

prison, and with my fettered hand, expecting

my sentence of death tomorrow.... When,

with the assistance of Jesus Christ, we shall

again meet in the delicious peace of the

future life, you will learn how merciful God

has shown Himself toward me, how

effectually He has supported me in the midst

of my temptations and trials.”—Bonnechose,

vol. 2, p. 67.

In the gloom of his dungeon he foresaw the

triumph of the true faith. Returning in his

dreams to the chapel at Prague where he had

preached the gospel, he saw the pope and his