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death_n	day_n	great_a	see_v	5,480	5	3.2974	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22462	The copie of a double letter sent by an English gentilman from beyond the seas, to his frende in London containing the true aduises of the cause, and maner of the death, of one Richard Atkins, executed by fire in Rome, the seconde of August 1581.	Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610.	1581 (1581)	STC 888; ESTC S112708	11,224	24

then this forlorne fellow Yea some of the vulgare did talke broode against the college and nation not letting to say that such fellowes might be bolstered or couered by them that they marueled his holines would susteine so many of that contrey in the Citie but others more discrete that we were to be pitied rather then reprehended that had to wrastle in our contrey with such intractable spirits as this who brought to Rome as they said a paterne of our domestical miseries not wel conceiued of before But now the Magistrate of the inquisition after sufficient respite and triall of the prisoners disposition the 29. of Iuly called for certaine English men of speciall knowne conscience and credite and put them to a booke othe what they thought of this mans state of mind and whether they had any hope of his repentance either of the execrable Sacrilege cōmitted in the Church or of his damnable opinons wherevnto when they had answered according to their conscience then the man was brought forth and his said fact and hereticall assertions were publikly red and to him in Englishe interpreted where by an interpreter likewise he was demaūded whether he would repēt recāt he answered that he would seale thē with his death wherevpō he was deliuered immediatly to the secular officer who was thē pourposely present also he caused his sergeāts to seaze vpon his body as they did straight put vpō him a black cassock with flāmes of fier pain ted vpō it and caried him so from the house of the inquisitiō through the highe streat inn̄merable people folowing him to Corta Sauella which is a prison hard by the College which they did that such as were of the nation might more conueniently deale with him the remnant of his litle time remaining for his repentance he remained ther till wēsday folowing the godly Confessor and others of the nation and strangers also not ceasing night nor day to pray and do all duties towardes him but what could man do with him whom God had for his horrible factes and incredulitie forsaken The day of his execution therfore came being the second of August And the malefactor was set vpon an asse his body being naked to the girdel steede so caried towardes the place where he did the sacrilege bourning torches often thrust to his back and brest all the way as he went whereathe shewed much more impacience and pucillanimitie then was agreable to his former desperate pretended stoutnes and spirit roring and crying out kil me at a stroke wherevnto the forsaid good father on the one hand and an other that went of the other side him ceased not to call vpon him O Richard for our Sauiours sake that bought the with his bloud haue pitie vpon thy self remember God his iudgements into which thou shalt by and by enter and from which to recouer the to God these torments are vsed towardes the whiche yet are no more comparable to hell fire then the sparkles of thy smythie forge are to this thou now and anone shalt feele in thy body repent for IESVS sake repent in this last moment of hope and life And sometimes he cried the Lord haue mercy vpon me then the father O man there is no mercie out of the Church retorne to Christs spouse and familie from whence thou art fallen and there thou shalt find grace in this thy extremitie haue desire only to be vnited to the Catholik Church and to confesse thy self of thy offenses to Christes Ministers and thou shalt yet be saued and become of an example of God his iustice a paterne of his mercie and a saued soule in heauē But the forsaken creature would not heare nor by any meanes lift vp his eies towardes a great crucifix which the deuout fraternitie by order for the comfort of such men carieth before the condemned At leinth they came to S. Peters streate where he was to be bourned and first they cut of his right hand with which he did the impious fact then tied him to a stake and put fire about him the zelous priest continually crying vpon him to call yet for mercie but he feeling the torment to be long and vehemēt by reason the fire was slow would haue strangled him self in the chaine wherewith he was leusely tied about the stake at the sight whereof the good Father cried Atkins Atkins take heede for the passion of our Sauiour preuent not gods iudgement by violence and murder of thy self thou hast yet time inough to call for grace pardon for thy offences aske with thy hart onely and our mercifull Lord will giue it the and if thou so do cease that violent wresting of thy throte with the chaine and giue vs a signe with thy hand that thou repentest whereat sodenly he quieted him self in the chaine and lift vp not onely his hand but his stumpe arme also aboue his heade and so settled him self to quietnes till he was deade All we that stoode neare and saw him mak that euidēt signe at the Confessors motion conceiued gret hope of his saluation pro hoc tamen non dico vt roget quis though I doubt not but at the day of our Lord we shall see many suche examples of his mercie to men as nere the doore of damnation as this seemed to be for his life and death most desperate THE sight of this thing maketh me now lesse maruel at the Circumcellians Anabaptists and other heretikes deuilish obstinacie and desire of their owne deathes whereof S. Bernard writing of the like heretikes in his time hath godly wordes which though I be to long I will set downe for some ease of my mind that hath bene somewhat toiled in this poore mans lamentable case these daies past These heretikes saith he can not be vanquished by reason because they vnderstand not nor are corrigible by authoritie which they accept not nor by any persuasion for that they be subuerted they make choise of death rather then conuersion and many wonder to see them goe to death not only paciently but also as it seamed iocantly but such marueled that marked not what great power the Deuill hath not onely of the bodies but of the hartes of them that he hath by God his permission once possessed Is it not a greater matter that one should kill him self then offer him self to be killed by an other but that we haue seene the Diuel driue diuers to haue hanged or drowned thē selues To be short Iudas hanged him self by the Diuels instigation no question whereat I maruel not so much as that he could driu him to deny his Maister therfor the constancie of Martyrs is nothing like the pertinacitie of heretikes pietie in the former obduration of hart in these causing the contempt of death So saith he meaning that the enemie once hauing wone so much of a man as to make him forsake Christ and his holy Church it shalbe then no maistrie for him to driue him to