execution, in the audience of multitudes of people gathered together (as
is vsuall at such times) to be beholders of her death. And made there
also profession of her faith, and hope of a better life hereafter; and
the meanes whereby she trusted to obtaine the same, as before, hath
beene specified. And being asked, if she would be contented to haue a
Psalm sung, answered willingly that she desired the same, and appointed
it herselfe, _The Lamentation of a Sinner_, whose beginning is, _Lord
turne not away thy face, &c_. And after the ending thereof thus finished
her life: So that in the iudgement of charity we are to conceiue the
best, and thinke shee resteth in peace, notwithstanding her heynous
transgressions formerly committed: for there is no maladay incurable to
the Almighty Physitian, _Esay 1. 18_ _Ezech. 33. 11_. Therefore _Caine_
did iniury to God, when conuicted of the barbarous and vnnaturall
murther of his righteous brother, cryed out tht his sinne was greater
then could be forgiuen, _Gen. 4. 13_ for _Gods_ mercy is greater then
mans misery can be. And euen for the like vnto this very fact, we haue a
booke case, already adiudged, and ouer-ruled in those _Ephesians_, who
brought their coniuring bookes, sacrificed them in the fire, æstimated
at the [b]value of nine hundred pounds of our money, repented of
their[c] sinnes, and obtained mercy, _Acts 19. vers. 19_.

[Footnote b: _Bud[e,]us de asse. lib. 5._]

[Footnote c: The Ephesians were infamous for their Magicall
practises, _Appollonius_ professing the same in the Citie, so that
it grewe into a prouerb, +grammata Ephesia+ the Ephesian letters,
which were certaine Characters and wordes, by vertue whereof they
obtained good successe in all businesse, victory against others,
euasion and escape from dangers; and as we reade in _Suidas_, a
Milesian armed with these letters, ouer-came thirty Champions in