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 2. At length he aid, [Through the mercy of my God I have preerved my trut and concience, both to God, my King and Country. I have faithfully erved four Emperours, and that now uch a reward hould be given unto me, I leave to God the jut Judge, who knowes that I ought not either honour or riches, by any thing which I did in this buinee. But I could not winke at the oppreion of liberty and Religion: and becaue wee aw our elves circumvented by ubtilty, wee thought omething was to bee done; and would rather loe our lives, rather than by a dull ilence yeeld to the yoke, and betray poterity. I acknowledg that it was the will of God that we hould outwardly fall, who hath choen me and my beloved fellowes in this lat age to honour the truth by our bloud, and to make it glorious by our contancy. And although the fleh began to tremble at the hearing the entence of death, yet now by the goodnee of God, I feel no feare of it.

3. When the Miniter often interrupted him, perwading him not to hang his alvation upon a good Concience, but upon the mercy of God thioughthrough [sic] Chrit, the pious old man continued on his peech. [Yeſterday it was told me from my Aunt Pruskovia, that if I would petition to Prince Lichtentein, I might have a grant of my life, but o as to remain in prion all the days of my life. To which I anwered, that uch a grant would be both unprofitable and