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 and wished themselves elsewhere; when upon a great clap of thunder, with a whirlwind the doors flew open, and a mighty rushing of wind entered, with the hisses of serpents, shrieks and cries, upon which he lamentably cried out murder, and there was such roaring in the hall, as if all the devils in hell had been there. When day-light appeared, they took the boldness to enter the room, and found his brains beaten out against the wall, and the floor sprinkled with blood; and his eyes torn out, very terrible to behold: but missing his body, they went in search of it, and found it on the dunghill, mangled and mashed to pieces. So ended this miserable wretch's life, forsaking God and all goodness, and given up to his implacable enemy, which we hope may stand, not only as a fearful, bur lasting monument and warning to others. His mangled body in respect to his function learning, and other qualifications, was decently buried.