A&,Mon Fox. Idem, Idem. The gouernment. he was thus inftruding the people, aferuaot A of the Sherif!es going by,cried o.t aloud, and blafphemouny faid : Beleeae him not good people, hee is anhereticke, and amadde man out ofhis wit: bdeeue him not, for it is herelie that he faith. Ar.d as the other com!nued in his godly admonitions, fo did this wicked wretch !Jiow forth his blafphemousexclama– tions:vntil they came vnto the flake where he !houldfufter. But immediately after this Mar– tyrwas bound to the fiake, &fire put to him, fttch was the fearefull firoke of Gods iufHce vpon this blafphcmous ray!er, that hee was B there prefently in the light of all tbe people flriken with afrcnzie, wherewith he had be– fore railingly charged that good martyr of God: who in hisfurious rage and madndfe, cafHngoffhis fhooes & the reil ofhis cloarhs, cryedout vnro the people, and faid, thus did lames Abbrsthe irue feruantof God, whois faced, but I am d!mned: and rhusranne hee about the towne ofBurie , fiill crying, that lames Abbes was agood man and faued, but I am damned. Againe, children fitting incompanie toge– ther, fdlinto communicationofGod, and to C reafon what God was. And feme faid one thing,fome another: amongthe (efi, one faid, He is agood old father:towhich another,na– medDenr>M Benfield, replyed with amoll out– ragious blafphemie: What? hee(faid fhee)is an old doting foole. But !hortly after tnis young girle was fo firicken, that all the one fide "f her was blacke , and lhee became fpeechlelfe and died. Againe, oneLeaueraplough man, rayling, faid that he faw the euill fauoured knaue L4timer when he was burned: and alfo in defpite D faid,that he had teeth like an horfe. At which time and houre , as nc:ere as could bee: gathe.. red,rhe fonne ofthe &id L•••er mofi wickedly hanged himfelfe. Againe, in the time of King Edward, a young Gentleman ofCornwall beingin corn– panic with other moe gentlemen together with their feruants, beeing about the number oftwenty horfemen,amoog whom rhislufiie younkerentred into talke , and begaiTWithall tofweare, and vf<ribaldfpeech; beiriggently reprooued, theyounggentleman tooke fnuffe and f.Ud to the repr_opuer, Why takefi rho11 thought for mee? rake thou thought for thy winding iheete: well, quorh the other,mend, for deathgiueth no warning:for asfoone com– meth a Jambes skinneto the market as anold lh<eps skinne.l?>odswounds (faid he) care nor thou for me:raging Gill on this manner worfe andW?rfe in words, rill at.length pafsingon there 1onrncy, they came nding ouer agreat bridge,flandingouerapeeceofan armeofthe fea, vron which bridgerhisgentelman-fwea– rer fpurred his horfe infuch fott,as hee fprang cleaneouer with the man onhisbacke, whoas hee was going, cried, faying, Horfe andman and all to the diudl. Againe,there wasaferuingman in Lincoln- !hire, who had fiill in his mouth an vfe eo fweare G•ds prtt:ioNs bkoJ, and that for very Pmr trifles: beeiog ofttn warned by his friends eo So•btu leauethe takingthe Lords blood in vaine, did bookc notwirhflandi"g fiill perfifl in his wickednes, pu~,.~ vntill at the lafi it pleafed G0d to cite him 'S '• firfi withficknes,andthen withdearh: during which time ofthe Lords vilitation,no perfwafion could mooue him to repent his furefaid blafpheming, but hearingthe bell to roll, did mofi hardly in the very angui!h of his death, fiartvp in his bed, and fwarebyG•ds biood,thu beOtoHedfor me. Whereupon immediately the blood abundantly from all the ioynts ofhis bodie, as it were in fireames, did ilfue out ,moft featefully.from mooth, nofe, wrifl:s, knees, heeles, androes, with all other ioxats, notoneleftfree,and fodied. ' Thele and fuch like iudgementsmuft be as warnings from heauen to admonifh vs, and to make vs afraid oftheabufeof the tongue: efpccially when it tendeth to the di!honour of God. And wee arc eoimitate the cxampf~ of P•!Jc•rp• the Martyr, who when he was bid– den to ta}\e his oath,and curfe Chrift, anfwe– ri:d, Fourefcore and fixe yeeres haueI bin his feruant,yet in all thistime bath he notfo much as once hurt me: how then may I 1j>eakeeuill ofmy.King and foueraigne Lord, which'hath thus preferuedme1V I.Lafily,God bath ho– noured thytongue with the gift offpeech and Vtterance:and the great excellencyofthis gift thou!houldefl: percdue, ifthou were flrilten dumbe for a time.Therefore let thy tongue IJe applyedtotllehonouringof God, and tothe good ofthy neighbour• . ·,. FIN-IS.
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