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40 by the miniſters that he drank much brandy, and other ſtrong liquors, though he had often ſworn againſt it, and uſually curſed himſelf, Wiſhing that if he were drunk again, the devil might tear him limb from limb, ſo that God made uſe of the devil as an executioner of his judgment to bring the miſerable man's own curſe upon him, not one limb or member being left upon him.—Drunkard forewarned.

LIV. Remarkable is the relation, of undoubted credit, (and with which we ſhall conclude this chapter) of the dreadful judgment that happened upon one John Duncalf, of Kings-Swinford in Staffordſhire, who in January 1677, coming to the houſe of Humphrey Baby at Grangewell, about three miles from Wolverhampton, he begged of the woman victuals and drink, who formerly knowing him, and compaſſionating his condition, freely gave it him; but while ſhe was ſtooping to draw him ſome drink, he ſtole her bible, and ſold it afterwards for three ſhillings, to a maid not far off, whereby the woman came to hear of it, and paying her the money, received it again, but could not hear what was become of the man; but a while after John Duncalf hearing it diſcourſed, that he ſtole a bible, grew very angry, and gave out theatning words againſt a young man that reported it, but being ſeverely charged with it, he did not only deny it with ſome fierceneſs, but execrated, and curſed himſelf, wiſhing his hands might rot off if it were true, which words he had no ſooner uttered, but by his own confeſſion to divers that came to ſee him in his miſerable condition, he ſaid, That immediately thereupon he had an inward horror and trembling upon him, a dread and fear of the divine majeſty and juſtice of God; which fear and working