'rhe tender coitfcience~ 16r t~ fave th~ir lives; they refufed to [weare by Cap. I 2. theGenius; ot goodfort~he of thetr Empe- _ · · -· .. rours, although they never forbare to pray · --- - for their health and profperity. Eufebitu tels of one tha-t was apprehended, an~ led to the Altar to cafi on lncenfe, ·he retufe-d, they were willing to favt him,- onely they ~vould have him, as he had done nothing , f<J he . .thould £1y nothing, and make no words.: , Theywould fay tor him,that hehadfacrifice(i; if it was a fin, it was their .fin, not his : Biu: they could not fo perfwade him , when he came forth;he protefied that he had not facri.;. . ftced. 1heodoret tels alto of MarcuJ Arethu.;. Eufeh. J. 8. fiuJ, who having forrilerly in timeof Con- c• 20. I flantiuJ pulled down a Paganith }doll-Temple ; and in Julians time ,being accufed fqr it; was (njoyned to build it up agaihe .as it was, or give as much mnm.J as wottld do it : .he would do neither: They th.en fell tohaifTheod.i. ~~ the fum; he refi1fed frill : A~ lafi they camec. 6• . fo low, as to bid him give'what he would_, ne.. p · . .~ . . r. 1. I . b 1 '"- .r. • errnue zm.. ver 10 Itt e, we~e It ut one IJa~-fenny, t? It pium ejfe were but any t.hmg at all :· He 111 the nu~ft obolum hi of his extreme torments, confiantly fl;oodimpiu_m o– out, faying, It was alJ one togive but a half- pur zmf'61J- p t ' d- h fi h · f . "1/ b dere atque enn.J owar J t e u.r_t erznuo anv e·lJI. , a! to e r. ' b · 'J 1 ammampe..- .at the grea!~ft cbarl e: And therefore would cunia uni· not part with oi1e fingle half-penny to fuc11 verjarfi. . a purpofe, though to fave his life. . 4· Tender confcience flyu focret firn a1 well IZJ optn) and is befr feene in the darke, and moft kno'Wn by his CJo(et and[olitary carriage ; M ~ His
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