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To give you an instance or two, that you may see the miserable extremities the Saints of God in former times passed through. I read of one Sanctus, upon whom when such intolerable tortures were inflicted, as the Persecutors thought, surely they should have heard some words of blasphemy coming from him, yet they could get nothing but this, Sum Christianus, ⟨p. 21⟩I am a Christian; at which they being mad, they clapped on plates of brass red hot, to the most tender parts of his body, wherewith although his Spirit shrunk not, but still continued constant, yet his body was so drawn together, that it lost the proper shape of a man; and after he lying in prison a while, they brought him forth again to the common scaffold in the face of the people, and put him to all kind of torments they could devise, as though he had been put to none before, as scourgings, tearings by wild beasts; his body being thus torn, they brought an iron chair red hot with fire, and set him in it, and so fried and scorched him as upon a gridiron: Thus he being made the whole day a spectacle to the people, in stead of their games and sights, they could get nothing from him, but his first confession, Christianus sum, I am a Christian.

To give you an instance or two, that you may see the miserable extremities the Saints of God in former times passed through. I read of one Sanctus, upon whom when such intolerable tortures were inflicted, as the Persecuters thought, surely they should have heard some words of blasphemy coming from him, yet they could get nothing but this, Sum Christianus, ⟨p. 21⟩I am a Christian; at which they being mad, they clapt on plates of brass red hot, to the most tender parts of his body, wherewith although his Spirit shrunk not, but still continued constant, yet his body was so drawn together, that it lost the proper shape of a man; and after he lying in prison a while, they brought him forth again to the common scaffold in the face of the people, and put him to all kinde of torments they could devise, as though he had been put to none before, as scourgings, tearings by wilde beasts; his body being thus torn, they brought an iron chair red hot with fire, and set him in it, and so fryed and scorched him as upon a gridiron: Thus he being made the whole day a spectacle to the people, in stead of their games and sights, they could get nothing from him, but his firt confession, Christianus sum, I am a Christian.