we will say some evill beast] To unnaturall crueltie, they purpose to adde an act of inhumanitie to kill him, for whose safetie they should hazard their own lives; and being killed, not to vouchsafe him a buriall; and to both these a probable lye to cover the matter, they will impute their bloody fact to wild beasts; a lye like enough to be beleeved by that we read, 1 King. 13. &2 Kings 2:24. they would doe a brutish act, but would not own it; How much better is it to be reputed a murderer, and to be none, as Paul was, Acts 28:4. then to be one indeed, and lay the blame upon another, whether man, or beast, as these would doe?