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136 guilty of death: And ſo they did, therefore he was preſently Condemned, To be had from the place where he was, to the place from whence he death of came, and there to be put to the moſt cruel death that could be invented.

They therefore brought him out, to do with him according to their Law; and firſt they Scourged him, then they Buffetted him, then they Lanced his fleſh with Knives; after that, they Stoned him with Stones, then prickt him with their Swords, and laſt of all they burned him to Aſhes at the Stake. Thus came Faithful to his end. Now, I ſaw that there flood behind the multi- tude,a Chariot and a couple of Horſes, waiting for Faithful, who (ſo ſoon as his adverſaries had diſpatched him) was taken up into it, and ſtraightway was carried up through the Clouds, with found of Trumpet, the neareſt way to the Cœleſtial Gate. But as for Chriſtian, he had ſome re- ſpit, and was remanded back to priſon, ſo he there remained for a ſpace: But he that over-rules all things, having the power of their rage in his own hand, ſo wrought it about, that Chriſtian for that time eſcaped them, and went his way. Well