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 ny allurements to be perwaded from it: for he tels ther that therein is the readiet and mot infallible way of Salvation and aurance of the mercy of God by the merits of Chrit, being mindful of him & of that which he had heard from him that he had tried all Religion, and compared them with the Scriptures, and that he found none more ure & olid, than that which he was about to eal with his bloud, that we attain Salvation by the bloud of the Lamb, which he is certains very hortly to find. Of which glory if he would be partaker, he hould perevere in the ame faith. Secondly, he prayed that he would ue more clemency to his Subjects, and rather eae, then overcharge them with burthens; lat of all to command that he would have a care of her Children and bring them up in pure Religion, otherwie if through carelenee they were educed, he would caue them to appeare before Chrit his tribunal. This he pake with much zeal and olemn protetations; but this meer woman being perfidious to God, her concience, her children, and her ubjects, oberving nothing of all this. For within a while after he did marry an Apotate, committed her onnes to the tuition of Jeuites, he her elf werved from her Religion, and did exercie tyranny over the oules and bodies of her ubjects.

3. Being called forth to execution, he aid, I have travelled o many Countries, o many barbarons nations, have undergone o many dangers by ea and land