“ON the day of his death, July 6th, his sentence was read to him in the Cathedral of Constance, in the presence of the Emperor and Council. He immediately knelt down, and prayed God to forgive his enemies. Being again urged to recant, he replied, ‘I now stand before the face of God, and can never do what you require without a violation of His honor and my own conscience.’ Before he was led to the place of execution, he was solemnly presented to the whole Council in his priestly habit, with the chalice in his hand, that he might be disgraced with infamy. Being stripped of his habit amidst dreadful imprecations, and the chalice snatched from his hand, he was pronounced an accursed Judas. He replied, ‘I place my trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, and know that He will never take from me the cup of life; yea, I firmly believe that He will give it unto me this day in His kingdom.’ A paper miter, on which devils were painted, being placed upon his head, he comforted himself with the reflection, that Jesus had been in mockery crowned with thorns. He was then delivered to the magistrates, with these words: ‘We deliver your body to the secular power, and your soul to the devil.’ Upon which he exclaimed, ‘O Lord Jesus, I commend my soul unto thee, for thou hast redeemed it.’ Or the road to the stake, he sang psalms and hymn, with such cheerfulness and firmness, that hi, enemies said he went to his death as if he were going to a wedding feast.”