[613] If there be any one thing more detestable than the rest among the proceedings of Arundel and his inquisitorial associates, against Sawtre, it is their affecting to feel for him, or commiserate his case and recommend him to the favour of the secular power, at the very time when they were delivering him up as a sheep to the slaughter (or to the butcher) or as a victim for immediate immolation. They felt no pity for him, and knew that the magistrate would shew him no favour.—The judges of the Inquisition also are said always to express much tenderness and goodwill towards those they condemn to the flames.—Our protestant and pretended evangelical sects, likewise, are often heard to use the language of kindness and pity towards those whom they have pronounced to be heretics, at the same time they are doing all they can to render them odious in the eyes of all men, and, deprive them of the kind offices and good opinion of all their fellow-citizens.
[615a] Yes, devilishly so.
[615b] Fox 675.
[626] The Errata has been applied to this eBook.—DP.