His noble sentiments on the attributes of the Deity, particularly his providence, and his doctrine on the rewards and punishments in a future state, seemed favorable to religion. Hedrew me a little aside, conjuring me in the most tender manner not to beinsensible to the misery I should bring on that innocent creature towhich I had given life. They never used any wine, (the common drink of the country,)except for mass, or in sickness: they went barefoot, used disciplines,mad Hitherto the martyrs wrote in prison what happened tothem there: the rest was written by those persons who were present, towhom Flavian, one of the martyrs, had recommended it.
He was hung on a gibbet by one hand, whichwas fastened by a chain, and pierced with a sharp hook at the end of thechain; and by one foot in the same manner. This is true even in temporal undertakings; butmuch more so in the charge of souls, in which all success is moreparticularly the special work of the Holy Ghost, not the fruit of humanindustry. The villains or slaves in the country were laborers, bound to the service of particular persons; were all Hilary, St.
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