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4. When the Miniſter of the word put him in mind of Chriſt his ſpeech, I will not leave you comfortleſſe, he added: So our Saviour hath promiſed: but he hath alſo added, Father, I will that where I am, my ſervant alſo may bee, that hee may behold that glorie which thou gaveſt me. Becauſe therefore our heavenly Father hath the ſame will with the Sonne, I know that this is confirmed. Therefore I make haſt to die, that I may be with Chriſt, and ſee his glory, &c. And then he ſuffered Martyrdome couragiouſly.

Chap. LXXI.

John Theodore Sextus.

HE was a man skilfull both in learning and experience, eminent alſo in Religion, a chiefe Citizen of the old City, being brought to the Scaffold, he received a grant of his life, from Plateſius a Canon, his Nephew of his Siſter, who procured the pardon.

2. Being then baniſhed with others for Chriſt, he is in baniſhment while we write theſe things, and as a new-riſen Martyr, doth hitherto triumph in the Croſſe of Chriſt.

Chap. 72.