"soul-He who created it will, of his infinite "mercy and promise finally save it, I have no 66 manner of doubt. As to the articles before "rehearsed, I will stand to them to my very "death, by the GRACE of my eternal God." I was condemned to die, but the day before my execution was to have taken place, I made my escape from the tower, and continued in Wales for about four years. After which being seized by the prisoner's emissaries, and having been outlawed, they delivered me over to death as a heretic and traitor. I was then taken to the place of execution, and suspended by the waist with an iron chain. In this manner I was hung as a traitor, and cruelly burnt as an heretic, amidst the execrations of my savage tormentors, till my King delivered me out of their hands.

(The chain was produced in court.)

John Huss, sworn.

(This witness confirmed the testimony of the Emperor Sigismond, which, as it is noticed before, is omitted here. There was, however, a remarkable expression he uttered while burning, which the Emperor omitted. It was his answer to the last question, which is here set down.)

Q. Did you not address yourself, when at the fire, to some of the popish clergy who were present, and make use of some expressions that were thought remarkable?

A. I did speak to them after the fire was kindled. I said among other words, "Ye "shall answer for this an hundred years hence, "both before God and me." And also, "You "roast a Goose now, but a swan shall arise, "whom you shall not be able to burn as you "do the poor weak Goose." These expressions were then remarked, and a century afterwards were thought very remarkable, because Huss, in the Bohemian language, signifies a Goose, as Luther does a Swan; and just an hundred years after, Luther appeared, and gave the prisoner a deeper wound than he ever received before, yet he could not burn Luther.

Jerome of Prague, sworn.

This witness also confirmed the testimony of the Emperor Sigismond, which is here omitted, and only the latter part of his examination recorded.

Q. When you were brought before the Council of Constance, what examination did you undergo?

A. I was not allowed a hearing. They exclaimed on all sides, "Away with him, burn him, burn him."

Q. Did they proceed to burn you immedi ately?

A. No, I was confined full ten months in a loathsome prison, and such was my weakness that one day I was persuaded to recant; but

when taken before the Council I revoked my recantation and opposed the authority of the prisoner as far as I was able. I was then condemned as a relapsed heretic to be burnt to death. Immediately they dressed me in a paper cap, ornamented with flaming devils; and led me to the place of execution. When the cap was placed upon my head, I said "The Lord Jesus Christ, when he suffered "death for me, a miserable sinner, wore upon "his head a crown of thorns, and I, for his "sake, will cheerfully wear this cap." When I was bound to the stake, the executioner went behind me to kindle the fire, when I was so strengthened by my Lord, that I said to him, "Come here, and kindle it before my 66 eyes, for I had not come hither if I had been "afraid of it." The fire was now kindled and the flames surrounded me, while my soul was filled with such heavenly courage, that greatly astonished the beholders. My sovereign Lord the King now appeared in sight, and by a special celestial guard I was rescued out of their hands. The last words they heard me speak were, "In these flames, O "Christ, I offer up my soul to thee;" and because I disappeared out of their sight, they spread the report that they saw me burnt to death. This was in the year 1416, on the 30th day of May.

Jeronimo Savonerola, sworn.

Q: Have you not been employed by our

King to preach the gospel in Italy since you were a Dominican Friar?

A. I have endeavored to proclaim the glory and freeness of our King's grace to my benighted countrymen, and to the glory of his name my labors were blessed with suc

cess.

Q. Will you relate to the court, what you know of the prisoner during your residence in Italy?

A. I will. When I knew him, he as usual continued to change his name at different times. But when I took notice of him, he called himself by the name of Alexander VI. The life and actions of the prisoner by this name, evidently shewed, that he was a Nero indeed. The crimes that his most deluded followers have imputed to him, clearly prove that he was destitute of every virtuous principle, regardless of decency, and hardened against the very feeling of shame. There is upon record, a list of undoubted facts, which for their number and atrocity, are sufficient to render him by the name of Alexander VI. odious and detestable, even to such as have but the smallest tincture of humanity.

It is well known that the prisoner always made profession of sanctity, even when his conduct was the most infamous. He therefore claimed the title of His Holiness, while fiving in all manner of wickedness. And although he declared that the office of his priest

hood was too sacred to admit either himself or any priest to have a lawful wife, he, with them in general, were living in fornication and adultery. He therefore, to my own knowledge, only during the time he went by the name of Alexander VI. had, by one concubine, with whom he lived several years, four illegitimate sons, among whom was the infamous Cæsar Borgia, who followed his father in every wickedness and abomination. A daughter, named Lucrecia, was likewise among the number of his spurious offspring. And his only aim was to load them with riches and honor, in contempt of every obstacle which the demands of justice and the dictates of reason laid in his way.

Thus he went on in his profligate career, until the year 1503, when he took, by a providential mistake, some poison, which he and his wicked son had prepared for others, who were obstacles in the way of their ambition. The poison had so much effect, that it disabled him, by this name, from pursuing this course, when his old antagonist, Mr. Death, constrained him to assume a new title. During my residence in Italy, I preached against the luxury, avarice, and debauchery of the Roman clergy in general, and of the tyranny and wickedness in particular, of the prisoner and his son, Cæsar. I also wrote a book, entitled “The Lamentations of the Spouse of Christ, against false Apostles; or an Exhortation to