Protestantism in Poland and Bohemia - James Aitken Wylie

hath heard us even in this, and tomorrow he will
bear witness by some visible sign that we are the
martyrs of righteousness." But Pastor Werbenius,
when he heard this protestation, bade them be
content to have as sufficient token from God, even
this, "that that death which was bitter to the world
he made sweet to them."
When the day had broken they washed and
changed their clothes, putting on clean apparel as if
they were going to a wedding, and so fitting their
doublets, and even their frills, that they might not
need to re-arrange their dress on the scaffold. All
the while John Kutnauer was praying fervently that
some token might be vouchsafed them as a
testimony of their innocence. In a little the sun
rose, and the broad stream of the Moldau, as it
rolled between the two Pragues, and the roofs and
steeples on either side, began to glow in the light.
But soon all eyes were turned upwards. A bow of
dazzling brilliance was seen spanning the
heavens.[12] There was not a cloud in the sky, no
rain had fallen for two days, yet there was this bow
of marvelous brightness hung in the clear air. The
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