healed thee. Then he continued in the Apoſtrophe which was in the ſame ſong. Lift up thy ſelf thou beleeving ſoul, who art caſt down with a ſence of thy ſinne and miſery! He is faithfull that hath promiſed, who hath partly fulfilled his promiſe, having ſent a Phyſitian to thee, viz. his ſonne, who hath by his own bloud provided a plaiſter for thy ſore. He will reſtore thee to the full, when he ſhall raiſe thee up and glorifie thee, &c. Which are all ſignes of a ſoul wreſtling with deſpaire though not as yet deſpairing.
4. But although he had perhaps caſt himself down for a fear of greater evills, or with a hope to eſcape a reſolution to dye; yet the glory of Martyrdom doth not periſh with them, who (as long as it is Chriſts cauſe) fearing the enemies fury, do themſelves anticipate death; which may be made probable to the Papiſts themſelves, by the authority of the Fathers, to whom they in other caſes attribute much. Let them look upon Ambroſe (in his third book of Virgins) relating ſuch a thing of the Virgin Pelagia, & alſo prayſing the deed. Let them reſort to Auguſtin, although he anſwers more, doubtfully of the like buſineſſe. But ſomething may be had out of Euſebius to cauſe a milder opinion, who in the 8. Book 12. ch. writes thus, What need we revive the memory of thoſe who were burnt at Antioch With bot coals not to death, but to lengthen out the puniſhmet? (which alſo happened
