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 of which a Ieuite beat out with his mallet, hee being himelfe blind, blinded thoe that were before blind.

9, But yet their fury did not onely expres it elfe againt thoe that were already buried, I will not mention how they did deny them an honet buriall in the Church-yards, and forced them to bee buried in fields, gardens, high-wayes, and in thoe places that were et apart for the punihment of rogues. Certainly this was too barbarous that they did altogether deny, that ome hould bee brought out of their houes, and retored to our common mother the earth, for this onely end, that they might vomit out their hatred againt thoe that lept in Chrit, and that they might deterre the living almot killed with the tink of their carkaes, from the imitation of their contancy, this happened to a mot holy man, John Mathrada Mulen, preacher at Kutiberg, at Saint Batbera, who dying at his own houe (in the yeare 1625 the 4. of October, who being privily returned from banihment departed;) the Arch-Deacon Apian, denied altogether that he hould be buried, not uffering himelf to be wrought upon either by intreaties or by offers of money; at length after eight days, ome good men by tealth taking away his carkae in the night time buried it in a certaine place. That Belial in vain inquiring after the authors of o great wickednee, and threatning death unto them, for a little while