The Biography of Distinguished Reformers And History of the Reformation in the
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His judges, however, precipitated the passing of sentence ; and on the same day, or a few days after, he was condemned for having held the errors of Wickliffe, and for apostatizing. He was then immediately delivered over to the civil power, and, attired with a cap like that with which Huss had been adorned, he was led to execution. The post to which he was chained was hewn into a monstrous and uncouth figure of Huss, and ornament- ed into a ridiculous likeness of him. When the wood began to bla...ze, he sang a hymn ; and when the flames scorched him, he was heard to cry out, " O Lord God ! have mercy upon me !" and a little afterwards, " Thou knowest how I have loved the truth. " The wind parting the flames, his body, full of large blisters, exhibited a dreadful spectacle to the beholders ; his lips continued still moving, as if actuated by intense devotion. During a full quarter of an hour, he discov- ered the signs, not only of life, but of intel- 56 JEROME OF PRAGUE. lect. Even his enemies thought the rage of his judges pursued him too far, when they saw his wretched coverlet, and the other miserable garniture of his prison, by their order, consumed in the fire after him; and his ashes, as those of Huss had been, thrown into the Rhine.
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