To others who came he said,--

"Grieve not. I have sent a saint to heaven; yes, I have sent two such

thither!" alluding to his infant Elizabeth.

As they were chanting by the corpse, "Lord, remember not our former

sins, which are of old," he said,--

"I say, O Lord, not our former sins only, nor only those of old, but our

present sins; for we are usurers, exactors, misers. Yea, the abomination

of the mass is still in the world!"

When the coffin was closed, and she was buried, he said, "_There is

indeed a resurrection of the body._"

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