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B01450 An account of the sufferings and dying words of several French Protestants, under this present persecution as it was received from the hands of several Protestant ministers, who arrived lately in England. 1699 (1699) Wing A396; ESTC R204267 4,974 16

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commanded all the Torments usual to be inflicted on him with which he was nothing disturbed but sung The Lord is my Helper I will not fear what Men can do unto me I will fear no Evil because Thou art with me O Lord. Then he blamed the Tormentors for favouring of him and desired them to do their outmost The Sheriff not prevailing that way He with some Jesuits and Priests though by Flattery to Seduce him promising him Preferment Riches and Honour if he would deny his Profession But he dreeded them as Foolish and Mad saying I look for greater Preferment in Heaven than ye can give me here on Earth He was then Condemned and carried out of the City to be Burnt Multitudes of Friends and others following him some Kissing him Weeping for him and entreating him with Tears to pity himself To whom he Answered Weep not I pray you for me but weep for the Enemies of God who fight against the Protestants Weep I say for them who prepare a Fire for us purchasing Hell Fire for themselves in the Day of Vengence Cease I pray you thus to molest my settled and quiet Mind For truely for the Name of Christ and the Protestant Reformed Religion I am ready and willing to suffer a Thousand Deaths Others perswaded him to deny his Religion with his Mouth and to keep his Conscience to himself To which he Answered O Fools my Tongue which by God's Goodness I have cannot be brought to deny the ●ame For with the Heart we believe unto Righteousness and with the Tongue we Confess unto Salvation And thus perswading and encouraging the People to be willing to Dye in the like Cause and not to forsake their Profession for earthly Enjoyments with an unparalelled Countenance he gave up his Body to the Flames March 18. 1698. ANother young Gentleman a Soldier in the Garison at Dunkirk forsook all Company gave himself to Fasting and Prayer Meditation and Reading of the Holy Scripture Coming into the City upon a Holy-day and seeing the People at their Pastimes and other Ceremonial Follies declared himself a Protestant and cried Away with such Ridiculous Idolatrous Foppries For God will not be mocked with your Superstitions For These that Worship Him must Worship Him in Spirit and in Truth He was apprehended and tormented with diverse Torments which he regarded not saying There is nothing in my Mind that can be compared to the Kingdom of Heaven Neither is all the World if it were weighted in a Ballance comparable to the price of one Soul And further said Who can separate us from the Love of Christ Can Tribulation or Anguish And again I have learned of my Lord Jesus Christ not to fear them that can kill the Body and have no power to kill the Soul Having endured a Multitude of Torments he received Sentence of Death And at the place of Execution he said I give Thee Thanks O my Lord God who hast accepted me to be a Partaker of Thy Death and has not suffered me to be Devoured of my fierce Enemies Satan a subtile World but hast kept me constant in Thy true Faith unto the end And so he lost his Head but found a Crown of Glory Dunkirk Agust 3. 1698. ANother young Gentleman seeing the Persecution of the Protestants in Piedmont being of eminent Religious Parents and he himself being most Zealous in the Protestant Religion His Parents fearing that his Zeal might make him Guilty of his own Death keeped him closs at their Countrey House a great way from the City of Turin But he hearing of the great many persecutions of the Protestants both in City and Countrey detasting any further delay went all along through By-ways and much Danger and Weariness toward the City where he came in the Morning And going before the Judge said What a Shame is it for you thus wickedly to take away Mens Lives by all manner of Cruelties And also endeavour to destroy their Souls by compelling them to deny their Religion Would you know O ignorant Souls what I am Behold I am a Protestant and an Enemy to your Devilish Sacrifices I scorne and despise your Idols and tread them under my Feet and acknowledge only God Almighty the Creator of Heaven Earth Jesus Christ His only Son our Lord But for your prayers to Saints and your devilish dead Idols which are the work of Mens hands none but Fools will owne and worship the same c. Come on therefore and let the Hangman Burn Cut and Mangle this poor Mortal Carcase it is very easie to break and destroy a weak and brittle perishing Body but the Mind and Soul you cannot touch with all that you can do The Judge enraged ●herewith said to the Executioner Take him and let him feel the power of our Torments and know what we can do Yet O sturdy youth I would fain have thee before thou dyest to Recant this thy Wickedness and to save thy self from a wretched Death Consider what Pleasures thou mayest enjoy in the House of thy honourable Parents Consider the Lamentations and Tears of thy miserable Family and Relations which by thy Perverseness will be brought to Ruine Consider thou art in thy youth in the flower of thine Age in the way to Honour and Preferment by an Honourable Marriage agreeable to thy Quality and Estate do not these glistering Glories and the Delights of this World move thee Does not the Terror and extream Grief of thy dear Parents incline thee to pity thy self and them Yea who is there doth not lament thy madness and folly If this doth not prevail consider the terrible Death that thou art like to suffer Consider what variety of Torments are prepared for thee for thou shalt either be Beheaded by the Sword or thou shalt be torn in pieces by the Teeth of wilde Beasts or else thou shalt be thrown alive into the burning Flames Now how easie and small a matter is required of thee to avoid all this punishment and take a little Incense between thy Fingers and put into the censure in honour of the Romish Religion thou shalt be set free promising always to desert from the Hugon● Religion When he heard him thus speak being extreamly moved he spit in the Tyrant's Face and presently threw down the Censure and kicked the Incense and said Away with your Idols out of my sight Whereupon the judge commanded the Hangman without further delay to pluck his Limbs out of joint and then with the Claws of wild Beasts tore off the flesh from his Bo●es while he not in the least daunted with their cruel Torments fell a singing and praising in this manner O Lord I will never forget Thy Goodness and Mercy what a pleasure is it O Lord Jesus to remember thy triumphant Victories who by suffering hast attained the height of Glory Thus with great Constancy and Courage he continued joyful and chearfully sang Praises to God when he was all overstain'd and imbrewed in his own Blood and cruelly tormented in all parts of his Body Then they proceeded to the last Torments which was to cast him alive into the burning Flames where he dyed a joyfull Marty singing Praises and Hallelujah's to God Turin October 27. 1698. 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