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weeping pitifully, intreated him to remember and consider his poor family. To whom he answered, That his Lord and master had commanded him not to deny the truth for his family's sake, and that it was too much that for their sakes he had once fallen already; and therefore desired them not to solicit him any more in that matter, for he knew his end drew near, and therefore he commended them to the Lord. In a short time after, the Pope sent word Faninus should he burned, at which he very much rejoiced, and thanked the messenger. Being still offered life if he would recant, and thereby prevent the misery of his wife and children: he said, he would leave them to a careful and sufficient Overseer: and being asked who that was, he answered, even the Lord Jesus Christ, a faithful keeper of all that are committed to him. As he was going to execution, one that saw him so merry and cheerful, asked him what the reason of it was, since Jesus Christ before his death swate water and blood? To whom he answered. That Christ sustained all the sorrows and conflicts with hell and death, which were due to us, that by his sufferings we might be free from the sorrow and fear of them all.―At the place of execution, after having earnestly prayed to God, he went patiently to the stake, and was first strangled, and then burned.
The Persecutions and Cruelties of the Papists upon the
Protestants in Scotland and Ireland.
As most kingdoms in Europe felt the rage and fury of Romish cruelty and persecution, so Scotland, though in the frozen north, was not
