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Rh down on the ground, they found her ſtark dead.—Wierus.

XIX. The ſame author affirms, that about this time there dwelt in a city of Savoy, a man who was of a very vicious converſation, and likewiſe a great ſwearer, who put many good men to much fruitleſs pains in admoniſhing and reproving him for his wicked behaviour; for he would give no ear to them, nor in the leaſt reform his ways: now it happened that the plague was in the city, and he was infected therewith; and therefore himself, his wife and kinſwoman withdrew themſelves apart into a garden-houſe that he had; yet in this his extremity did not the miniſters forſake him, but continually exhorted him to repentance, and to diſcover to him his grievous and manifold offences; but he was ſo far from being moved with theſe religious admonitions, that he ſeemed daily more and more to harden himſelf in his ill courſe of life, therefore haſtening his own deſtruction: it happened one day as he was ſwearing, denying God, and giving himſelf to the devil, and calling for him with horrid vehemency; behold the devil appeared, and ſuddenly ſnatching him up, carried him into the air with great velocity, his wife and kinſwoman looking on, and ſaw him fly over their heads: in this his ſwift tranſportation, his cap fell off his head, and was found at Roſna, and himſelf was never after ſeen, nor heard of. The magiſtrates being advertiſed hereof, came to the place where he was taken up, to be better informed of the truth of the report, and took the depoſitions of the two women upon oath, of what they had ſeen of this extraordinary affair. By this we may ſee the terrible, yet juſt vengeance of God upon ſuch ſinners; and it may be a warning to thoſe who are ſo inſpired by Satan, that they cannot ſpeak but they