The Litchfield County post., 1828-04-24

himself converse with lafss Elsld. and en.
 deavor to persuade him l& Ounee his CT
 TOTS. But the king. as ' It have been
 expected. showed by his fe Let ir this in terview, that he was much better qualified tO
 command the services. than to control the ] cOnsciences of his subjects Fexed at his i'll
 success in his endeav0rs tD accomplish what
 he had so confidently underiaien. he then re-
 signed his former favorite to the malice oI his enemies.
 The worthy n0bleman, after making sew
 eral intellectual efforts to avoid Ia trial in which he knew the judges to have already deter mined his condemnation, at length submit
 ted to the mandate of the klng, and was ar
 raigned for his life before an ccesiastical tri-
 bunal. Perceiving that the storm of perse-
 cution raised against him could no longer
 be delayed, he prepared with manly intrepid 1 ity to breast the shock. Unlike the irresO-
 lute Cranmer, his principles hs never deser. ] ted. He loved the truth of his Divine Mas. that his sincerity was geniiH Fudeed, So ldigniRed, and 50 full 6l his an. swers to the malicious aha HE z Accusations
 ofshis enemies. that they were eonfounded | and like Felix, when Paul aPswered for him. self, they trembled. But impudence and l wickedness soon recover themselves from the severity of rehuke. As ancag the poets
 angels in the hattie, blows may be delt out
 heavy and fast. but they fall on Souis unsus.
 ceptible of feeling.
 Long and vexatious was the trial of the
 noble peer, yet through the whole course o it he manifested the meekness of saint. com. bined with the diguified firmness of q yeter- an Christian soldier. It was sight for an. gels, to behold this man of God, faithful a.
 mong the faithless. faithful only he among
 innumerable false, unmoved, unshaken, unse- duced, anterrifed."
 When reproached for scrupulously adher- ing to the doctrines of WickIiEe, he replied -" Before God and man, NJ Ilsre splemnly
 profess, that before learned tEe doctrines 10
 that virtuous man. whom you ss much des- pise, I never abstained from silE so much grace could never find in aIl senF pompous instructions. My purpose is fl Senss do with
 me as you please: yield this worthless bo- dy to your injustice and cruelty, well assured that ye can do no injury to my soul. With ! regard to the articles of my falth. founded as trust they are on the Holy Scriptures by the grace of the eternal God, will stand firm to them till death.' M
 But such conduct on his part, excited mo-
 thing but malignity in the breasts pf his ludg- es, and he was sentenced to the fumes. Then
 in the presence of the court, like Stephen al
 his martyrdom, he prayed aloud for his mur-
 derers.
 On the day appointed, he was taken from
 his dungeon, and triumphantly csI'Esiucted by ms enemies to Ine place df e NsRsdN0H! - fancy behold the gallows-tree, on which
 this venerable martyr was suspended. The faggots are collected that are to reduce hi: body to ashes. The torch is applied, and
 the Genius of persecution exults in her pow.
 CT thus to infict on her victims the pain of g
 double death. N ss.g,s.. But, is it the proof, and Accomplishment o guilt and infamy, presented by this appalling sight, a spectacle to surrounding thousands No! it is the throne of martyrdom; raised indeed by the malice of the wicked; but a
 king in his triumph sits upon it. The flames
 that surround him though kindled from the pit. are converted into blaze of glory which shines but to illuminate to admiripe
 angels, the sublinaity and grsndeur of sfhe
 scene. Nay more; they are the chariot and
 the horses of Israel, which bear him, like tho Prophet, to Paradise. A. Fl. H. Andover. Sept. 19, 1927.
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