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Hen Roacius the Miniter of the Word came to viit him after his condemnation, he received him with tears in his eyes, but with a merry heart, with thee words; ''Behold me a mierable old man, who have often intreated my God, that hee would have compasion on me, and take me out of this life, but I have not obtained it; For God hath reerved me to be a pectacle in the world, and a acrifice to himelf. Let Gods will be done. My death indeed is digracefull in the eyes of men, but glorious in the light of God: for God will account that death precious in his ight, which I uffer for his glory and truth.'' And when the Miniter would have comforted him, he deired him to heare his confeion, and to pronounce his abolution, and to have that faith and hope which he had in God trengthened by the Lords Supper. Having therefore confeed himelfe a inner, but epecially that in his youth he committed omething according to the cutome of that age, to pleae the world he prayed God that had not uffered him to be wallowed up, but had called him to a more holy and upright coure of life. 2. At