God forgive thee thy sin, and do thine office, I pray thee.' Then the reeds were cast up, and he received two bundles of them in his own hands, embraced them, kissed them, and put under either arm one of them, and shewed with his hand how the rest should be bestowed, and pointed to the place where any did lack.

Anon commandment was given that the fire should be set to, and so it was; but because there was put to no fewer green fagots than two horses could carry upon their backs, it kindled not by and by, and was a pretty while also before it took the reeds upon the fagots. At length it burned about him, but the wind having strength in that place (it was also a lowering and cold morning,) it blew the flames from him, so that he was in a manner no more but touched by the fire.

Within a space after a few dry fagots were brought, and a new fire was kindled with fagots, (for there were no more reeds,) and that burnt at the nether parts, but had small power above, because of the wind, saving that it did burn his hair, and scorched his chin a little. In the time of which fire, even as at the first flame, he prayed, saying mildly and not very loud, (but as one without pains,) 'O Jesus, the Son of David, have mercy upon me, and receive my soul.' After the second was spent, he did wipe both his eyes with his hands, and beholding the people, he said with an indifferent loud voice, 'For God's love (good people) let me have more fire.' And all this while his nether parts did burn; for the fagots were so few that the flames did not burn strongly at his upper parts.

The third fire was kindled within a while after, which was more extreme than the other two: and then the bladders of gunpowder brake, which did him small good, they were so placed, and the wind had such power. In the which fire he prayed with somewhat a loud voice; Lord Jesus have mercy upon

me: Lord Jesus, have mercy upon me: Lord Jesus,

receive my spirit.' was heard to utter. mouth, and his tongue swollen, that he could not speak, yet his lips went till they were shrunk to the gums: and he knocked his breast with his hands, until one of his arms fell off, and then knocked with the other, until by renewing of the fire his strength was gone, and his hand did cleave fast in knocking to the iron upon his breast. So immediately bowing forwards, he yielded up his spirit.

and these were the last words he

But when he was black in the

Thus was he three quarters of an hour or more in the fire. Even as a lamb, patiently he bore the extremity thereof, neither moving forwards nor backwards, nor to any side; but having his lower part burnt, and his vitals destroyed, he died as quietly as a child in his bed.

And now he reigns, as a blessed martyr, in the joys of heaven, prepared for the faithful in Christ, before the foundation of the world: for whose constancy all Christians are bound to praise God.

(Concluded.)

THE CHRISTIAN LIKENED TO THE MOON.

LOOK at the Moon, as she rises on some clear night in the Eastern sky, to light the labourer home from his daily toil, and the traveller to his journey's end! Is she not a beautiful object to look upon? Where is the heart so dead to the beauties of nature that it does not delight in the cheerful sight? She is almost as bright as the sun, shining upon the earth

with ber cloudless countenance, and in many respects almost as useful! And where does she obtain that light, by means of which she cheers and benefits the earth? It is not her own proper light-but it is all derived to her from the sun shining upon her Atmosphere, and reflected from thence upon the earth.

Behold here a picture of the true Christian! By nature one man is as dark and unfruitful as another in spiritual things. But when any one has become a true Christian, it must be said of him, that “God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined into his heart, and given him the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ; and that "beholding" in Jesus, God manifest in the flesh, "as in a glass the glory of the Lord, he is changed into the same image from glory to glory." He "arises and shines when his light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon him ;" and "God makes manifest the savour of his name by him in every place," enabling him to abound in every good word and work.

Like the Moon he sheds his light around: he lets his light shine before men that they may see his good works, and thus "glorifies his Father which is in heaven." As the Moon is a blessing to those who are within reach of her beams, so is he a blessing to those who are around him, through the benefits which

* The Atmosphere is a combination of gases, which we usually call 'the air. Something of the kind is supposed to surrouud all the planets. That which surrounds the earth is computed to be about forty-two miles in thickness. The earth surrounded with its atmosphere may be somewhat likened to the yoke of an egg surrounded by the white.

The affords them by his conversation, his example, and his works. As the moon bears a resemblance to the sun, so he in his character bears a resemblance to Jesus. And as the moon derives all her light, beauty, and usefulness from the sun, so does the Christian derive all his moral beauty and excellency, and all his capacity for that which is good and useful, from the Lord.

Is it then, dear reader, or is it not, your exceeding great and precious privilege to be one of those upon whom Christ has lift up the light of his countenance, and thereby called out of darkness into marvellous light, and translated from the kingdom of Satan into the kingdom of his grace? If this is your happy privilege, bless the name of him by whose grace you are what you are; and remember what must be your constant object-"Ye are bought with a price, therefore glorify God both in your body and in your spirit which are God's." As the moon shines in the night, so are you called to shine in this dark world by Christian behaviour, by Christian conduct, by good works, "by adding to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge, and to knowledge temperance, and to temperance brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness charity:" to be, in short, even such an one as Christ was when he was in the world, ever bearing in mind, as he did, that "Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit." Thus must you shine by means of the light which he has given you, and glorify his grace, by which you have been brought out of darkness.

And may the Lord, who is the giver of all spiritual grace, and the author of everlasting life,' make