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Wolfgangus however remained immovem able. Neither the straitness of his pria son, nor the cruelty of his keepers, nor yet the compassion he felt for bis wife and seven children, could prevail with him to deny his Lord and Saviour, ale though he was kept a whole year in this distressing situation. When he was broughtforth to profess his faith, he both meekly yet learnedly confuted all that stood against him.

There was one friar, a most notorious man-his body was a most enormous size, but he was much more gross in blind ignorance; a man utterly rude and a contemner of all civility and honesty. Having been long confessor to the Duke, and of great authority, and being an enemy to virtue and learning, he was continually persuading the Duke to banish out of his court and dominions all learned and valuable chara acters, for he could not abide any person who seemed to know more than he or his elders knew before. The sum of his religion and divinity was this : that it was quite sufficient to salvation merely to know the Pater-noster and Avea Maria. Thus was the Duke brought up and trained, and in nothing else, as he himself in talking with his familiars confessed. This wicked friar being chief judge, when Wolfgangus was ex. amined, had nothing in his mouth

but “ thou heretic - Judas -- Beelze. bub, &c.” The holy martyr bore patiently these private injuries which concerned himself, and proceeded steadily in his disputation of the Scriptures, confuting or rather confounding his ad. versaries: who, not being able to make their party good, yet for very shame, because they would not seem to do nothing, took his Bible with his marginal notes into their monastery and kept it. At the last disputation the Duke disguised himself and was present; and though he did not understand what the martyr said, as he spoke in Latin, yet perceiving him to be bold and constant in his doctrine, he gave sentence that he should be burnt, because he denied the church and the sacrament of the mass.

When Wolfgangus heard his sentence of condemnation, he began to sing th 122nd Psalm,“ I was glad when they said unto me,” &c. As he was led to the place of execution passing by the house of the friars, the same one men. tioned above, sitting at the door, cried out to him, “ thou heretick! do thy reverence here to God, and our lady and the holy saints :" shewing him the idols of wood which were placed at the friars' gate. To whom the martyr replied, “thou hypocrite, the Lord shall des. troy thee, and bring all thy false dissimulation to light.” When they were

come to the place of his martyrdom, first his books before him were thrown into the fire. Then they asked if he would have his pain lessened or shortened ; to whom he said, no, they might do as thy pleased ; for (said he) “as God has been with me hitherto, so I trust now he will not leave me when I have most need of him.” Then begin. ning to sing the 51st Psalm, he entered the place heaped with faggots and wood, and continuerl singing this Psalm, till the smoke and flaine deprived him of voice and life.

The singular virtue, constancy and learning of this blessed man, as it refreshed and greatly edified the hearts of many good men, so it astonished as much the minds of his adversaries and wrought to their confusion. The just judgments of God were executed in a most remarkable manner shortly after his martyrdom, by the awfully sudden death of two principal leaders in the persecution which then raged against The Protestants.

ANNE S. Anne S. was the only child of an old far. mer and his wife, in the parish of They had had indeed two little boys, who died in infancy, but they reared none except this darling daughter, in whom their hearts were quite bound up. She was indeed (be. sides being their only one) much to be loved, being a very meek, tender, and dutifal child; and particularly industrious and helpful to her parents, in the hard work of_the farm. Being quite poor farmers, they kept no maid servant; so that Anne and her mother had to do the work of twenty-five cows, besides much labour within and without the house. Her old mother was remarkably strong, and went through her work, with fatigue indeed, but without suffering in health ; but Anne had a delicate constitution, and though she went through her work for several years without the appearance of being unequal to it, her constitution was certainly undermined by hard labour. And the approaches of disease though slow were certain.

Her parents had given her a better education than they had themselves received she had been taught to write and keep accounts; she was very helpful to her father in keeping the accounts of his farm, being remarkably wishful to help her parents in every way she could; whieh wish seemed to increase when she found her strength declining, and the progpect of her being soon taken from them. It was this feeling which induced her at the beginning of her illness to get a quan. tity of house linen made and marked, as

she knew her mother could not do it as well when she was gone. .

Anne had in health always been a regular attendant on the ordinances of divine vor. ship, and had always shewn delight in ac. companying her mother (who is a truly genuine Christian) to the house of God. She had always been brought up by her anxious parent in the fear of the Lord, and wholly excluded as she was from all vain pleasures such as fairs and feasts, which even in remote country places, such as she lived in, hold out their temptations to thoughtless young persons in her situation of life; she never showed a desire after them. Still she had never experienced that change of heart--that transformation of mind by which all things become new. She had lived a life without spot to the eyes of her fellow-creatures; but had not discovered herself to be poor, and miserable, and blind, and naked, in the eyes of her heart-search. ing Creator.

It was not till she had attaised her thirtysecond year that the approaches of consumption became evident. Her poor old father and mother were overwhelmed with grief, as the prospect of losing their darling child hecame more evident. As for Anne herself, this illness became the appointed means by which her eyes were opened to the know

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