termiſſion to piety, and to imitate that conſtancy whereof they ſee an example in me: although I know that you who are the fathers and ſhepheards of our ſouls are not without danger. We go before, but you wil follow: but God keep you for his own glory, and let him not ſuffer his Church to be wholly trampled on by the Babiloniſh beaſt.
5. On the day of execution, when the Miniſter of the word came to him, hee ſaid: I had laid this miſerable body upon a bed; but what ſleep could I have? Yet I did ſleep, and ſaw two Angels comming to me, who wiped my face with fine linnen, and exhorted me to be ready to goe along with them. But truſt in my God that J have theſe Angels preſent with me, not by a dream, but in truth, which miniſter to me while I live; and ſhall carry my ſoule from death into Abrahams boſome. For although I am a ſinner, yet I am purged by the bloud of my Redeemer, who was made a Propitiation for our ſinness. Therefore let the houre of Death come, I am prepared.
6. Having put on his clothes he comanded that a garment of the fineſt linnen,which hung down to his heels ſhould be put over him and then ſaid to M. Lippuch, Behold I put on my wedding garment. To which the other anſwered. The garment of Chriſts righteouſneſſe adorns more gloriouſly within. He anſwered again, I know it but yet I deſire to be adorned without for the
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