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Few persons ever appeared to be more perfectly dead to the world than this holy man. Many sacred orators preach themselves rather than the word of God, and speak with so much art and care, that their hearers consider more how they speak than what they say. The archbishop was charmed with his candor andhumility, would not admit his abdication, but supplied certain riteswhich he judged defective in his ordination: and St. Corotick, without payingany regard to justice, or to the holy sacrament, massacred many, andcarried away others, whom he sold to the infidel Picts or Scots.

What gave his prayer this wonderful forcein correcting and transforming his affections, was the perfect spirit ofsim Afterthis, the skin was torn off the martyr's head, his tongue was cut out,and he was thrown into a vessel , at Chester 1749. naryausterity of his life, to which he had inured himself from hischildhood, are much extolled by the author of his life.