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10 rave extremely; and taking his muſquet, ſhot it up againſt heaven, breaking forth into theſe blaſphemous ſpeeches, Let him that killed my cattle devour them: if thou wouldſt not let me eat them, eat them thyſelf: upon theſe furious barkings againſt God, there fell ſome drops of blood, and this wicked man was turned into a black dog, and howling he ran to the dead cattle, and began to feed upon them; and for ought I know (ſaith mine author, who wrote this account preſently after) is yet feeding upon them. His wife, great with child, being greatly aſtoniſhed, and terrified with the ſtrangeneſs of God's ſudden and awful judgments, ſhortly after died.—''Clark's Exam. 1 Part.''

VI. Simon Churmay in 1201, having moſt ſubtilly and acutely diſputed about the Trinity ſome of his familiar friends perſuaded him to put it into writing, that ſo the memorial of ſuch excellent things might not be loſt; whereupon he proudly brake forth into this Atheiſtical ſpeech, O Jeſule, Jeſule, &c. ''O little Jeſus, little Jeſus, how much have I confirmed and advanced thy law in this queſtion! but if I had a mind to deal croſly, I know how with ſtronger reaſons and arguments to weaken and diſprove the ſame: which was no ſooner ſpoken, but he was ſtruck dumb, and not only ſo, but he became an idiot, and ridiculouſly fooliſh, and was made a common hiſſing and mocking-ſtock to all that ſaw him.—Mat. Paris.''

VII. Not much unlike this, is that of Michael, a blaſphemous Jew, who as he was banquetting with his companions, fell to blaſpheming Chriſt, and his mother, boaſting, That he had gotten the victory over the Chriſtians' God: but as he went