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Histories tell us, that Isaiah was sawn asunder with a wooden saw; Jeremiah was put into a dungeon, sticking in the mire (as some stories say) even up to the ears, and after was stoned to death in Egypt; Ezekiel was slain in Babylon; Micah was thrown down a steep place, and his neck broke; Amos was smitten with a club, and so brained: The Story of the persecutions of the Maccabees prophesied of, Dan. 11. 36. and recorded by the Apostle, Heb. 11. from the 35 Verse to the end, is exceeding lamentable; the Texts says, That they were tortured, that they had the trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, of bonds and imprisonment; they were stoned, were sawn asunder, slain with the sword, wandered up and ⟨p. 18⟩down in Sheep-skins and Goats-skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented, they wandered in deserts, and mountains, and dens, and caves in the earth.

Histories tell us, that Isaiah was sawn asunder with a wooden saw; Ieremy was put into a dungeon, sticking in the mire (as some stories say) even up to the ears, and after was stoned to death in Egypt; Ezekiel was slain in Babylon; Micah was thrown down a steep place, and his neck broke; Amos was smitten with a club, and so brained: The Story of the persecutions of the Maccabees prophesied of, Dan. 11. 36. and recorded by the Apostle, Heb. 11. from the 35 Verse to the end, is exceeding lamentable; the Texts says, That they were tortured, that they had the tryal of cruel mockings and scourgings, of bonds and imprisonment; they were stoned, were sawn asunder, slain with the sword, wandred up and ⟨p. 18⟩down in Sheep-skins and Goats-skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented, they wandred in deserts, and mountains, and dens, and caves in the earth.