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amazed multitude flock after them in great ſwarms, ſighing and lamenting.

9. After that, the whole night is ſpent in Pſalms and prayers, and godly diſcourle, and mutuall exhortations: (that becauſe it pleaſed God to call them before others, to this glory of Martyrdome,) they ſhould not doubt, by their true conſtancy, to confound the world, to glorifie Chriſt, and to leave a godly example to poſterity. And when amongſt others they ſung the ſixty eight Pſalm, (occaſion being taken by the laſt verſe of that Pſalm, where David prayes, Shew ſome token of good upon me,) John Kutnaur broke out into theſe words, Shew therefore on us ſome token of thy goodneſſe O God, whereby we thy unworthy ſervants may be ſtrengthned by thy goodneſſe, and our enemies confounded. And as it were anſwering for God, being full of faith, he ſaith, Be of good cheare, for even in this God hath heard your voyce, and to morrow he will ſhew ſome wonderfull ſigne, and will witneſſe that we ſuffer for his cauſe. The Miniſter, M. Werbenius when he heard this, anſwered, They will rest ſatisfied herewith, when they all perceive that death which is bitter to the wicked, is ſweetned to you.

10. Early in the morning, having waſhed their Faces, they put on clean clothes, as though they were going to a wedding, fitting their Dublets and jackets to their bodies, and cutting their collars,

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