Icinaiiiii exposed to lions,
or S. fSeboiliim pierced viith
UTOns, or S. A ttidus carried
about tlio theatro with
scorn unto hie death for tbo
cause of Jeaut, for Religion,
for GtA and a holy coo-
science ; ve should have
been in love with flames,
and have thought the grid-
iron fairer than the spoiula,
the riba of a ■maTital btd,
and we should have chosen
to converse with those
beasts, rather than those
men that brought
beasts forth, and eat
the arrows to be the rajs of
light brighter than the
moon, and that di3grace
and mistaken pageantry ,
were a solemnity richer and
more magnificent than Mor-
decai'a procession upon the
king's horse, and in the
rohea of majesty : for ho did
these holy men account
them ; the; kissed their
stakes, and hugged their
deaths, and ran violently
to torments, and counted
nhippings and secular dis-
graces to be the enamel of
their persons, and the oint-
ment of their heads, and
the embalming their names,
and securing them for im-



mortality. Bui
jan«* torn in p
people, or Ntr
creeping timon
, death, when b
, demned to die

' and trembling,
guish, sorrow, a
to observe thi
and intolerabb

. I/erod and An
tell and demi
causes of patiei
patience to pi

oftk









those the cup bitter
nated When men I

took in, and s
do again tast«
turned into cl
temperance", t
its punishment
so, that shami
face, and sorro
of darkness upi

person that is 1
cution for mi
treaaon, but w

he should di'
brought the sii
shame, if ne
the rewards



BIOKiraSB SAVE AND HOLT.
