boa A Commentary upon the Gild Chap.a7. vet went and hang'd himfeifbv and by. So did Pavier, Town. Clark of London, in Henry the eights time, who had before fworn agreat oath, That if the Kings Highnt ile would let forth the Scripture in Englifb, and let it be read of the people by his authority, rather thenhe would f© long Live, he would cut his nil Oz. ownthroat. But he brake promife : for C`norrly after he hang'd himLlf. And about the fame time Foxford, Chancellour to the Bifhop of London, a cruel! perfecutour andbutcher ofthe Saints, IGid,02. died fuddenly in his chair, his belly beingbu:ft, and his guts fal- ling out before him ; as likewife yudas his did, Cum quodam., ¡Aa5017 fingularicrepitsu fragere, as the word imports, e. a t. I 8, Set- s cbril.F.a 6g. necoersu makes mentionofa covetous Bifhop ofefifna in Cfer- 37 many, who had thedevil for his deathfman : And D. (A2-orton, Inttitut. of the late Bifhop ofDatrham, reports a (toryof his own knowledge, Sacrament. t.I. ofone Sir Booth, abachelour ofArts inS.Iohx., Colledge in Cam- ,cap 3 fed >. bridge, who Being Popifhly a!feaed, took the confcrated bread at the time ofthe. Communion ; and forbearing to eat it, convey. ed and kept it clofely for a time, and afterwards threw it over the Colledge wall. But, a (hors time after, not enduring the torment ofhis guilty confcicnce, he threw himfelf headlong o- ver the battlements of the Chappel , and force few hours after ended his life. Thefirit ofa man may Fll'ain his infirmity : force shift or other a man may make to fuser whatfoever other calami- ties : But aWoundedf jiirit Whocan bear ? Prov. t 8.14. there's no fighting with a mighty fire, no bearingup fail again,t ftorm. I o6 when once wet to the skin,curfeth the day of'his birth,and think- "Fob T, it 5i eth it better to befirangled or hanged, then longer to endure it. Andyet God was but in ¡eft, as it were, with lob, in comparifon of 'atlas, Verle 6, It ù not latrfall, &c. J They would not fuffér the price ofblood to lie in a cheft;but theblood it felfthey could well enough fuffer to lie in their confciences. So our modern Phari- fees ( the Popifh Prelates) will not be prefent when the Mar- tyrs arccondemned to death, but have an hypcriticall form of interceding for them to the fecular powers, when as they them- íèlveshave delivered them up to theJudges to beexecuted, ours lïrsipræjudiciisdamnarunt, as onefpeaketh, having firft degadd, excommunicated and adjudged themworthy of death, Verfe 7. To bury frangert in ] ,Roman and others, with whom they would havenothing common, nonot fo much as a burial!
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