I am well aware, that there are||ence of Deity, whose glory he can many in this assembly who regard contemplate-whose majesty adore! practical religion as a bane to every Lives with his Saviour, who, in the earthly enjoyment. Youth presents plenitude of his mercy, rescued man many flattering, but delusive pros- from destruction, and ascended tripects. Whilst revelling in the sense- umphantly into heaven, to claim the less pleasures and imaginary happi- honor of his original greatness!— ness of a sinful world, the relentless Lives, and reigns forever!—Why, hand of death plucks the fairest flow- then, should we mourn over a disers of human loveliness, and the at-pensation which has promoted the tractive form of beauty is committed subject of our grief to the possession to the grave-and how delightful of angelic felicity! Mourn not, oh would be the reflection, did we know ye friends of the departed, but rethat that flower was to be transplant- joice! rejoice, for we are still pered in a more congenial soil. The sentiments of religion are the most attractive graces which can decorate the youthful mind; and without their refining influence, we must dread the moment of our dissolution. You may now, perhaps, smile in derision, but that smile may yet be exchanged for the tear of a hopeless despair. I would not indulge in these reflections, were I not warranted by the solemnity of this occasion. I speak to you as I think he would speak, were he permitted to address who is now slumbering in the tomb. It is not only our duty to admire, but also to imitate the virtues of the dead ;| and whilst we reflect on the eternal you, mitted to cherish the hope of a blissful re-union in eternity. Eternity! yes, eternity! and when this world, with all its deceptive pleasures shall have vanished from our sight-when the visionary happiness of time shall be lost in the blessings of futurity— how animating-how transcendent the joy which will then inspire us! Ye visions of celestial brightness, steal o'er the soul, and make us feel your glory! Ye seraphim, whisper one sweet melodious strain of humble adoration! Hark! it comes!salvation is the cry!" Ye angels, dwell upon the sound! Ye heavens reflect it to the ground!" Aspire, my soul! prolong the strain of heav happiness of the true believer, en-en's exultation! "Lend, lend your deavor to participate in that bliss which believers enjoy. wings! I mount, I fly! Oh grave, where is thy victory! Oh death, where is thy sting!" For the Lutheran Magazine. Where, then, is the christian-the fellow laborer in the vineyard of our common Master-the friend of our bosom ?-he is not dead, but sleepeth. Sleepeth! nay, he hath arisen from the grave to a glorious resurrection ! Yes, he lives lives to all eternity! Lives in the society of the redeemed ones who surround the long confine itself to secret measures. throne of God! Lives in the pres-These were, in fact, only the prepa With these supports of power, authority and money, it was not to be expected that the inquisition would ratives to that tremendous spectacle,||prisonment. The impenitent were which, under the title of Auto da fe, dressed in shirts, painted all over was to fill the earth with horror. with flames and devils. The most of these were near relatives. In The great inquisitor, Valdez, committed the management of the first front of them was the effigy of Donna auto da fe, at Seville, to Gasca, bi- Eleonora de Vibero, wife of Peter shop of Racenzia, and to bishop Gon-Cagalla, which, along with her bones, zales, of Tarazona, that at Vallado- was to be burnt. Augustin Cagalla, lid. In these two places, the whole her oldest son; Francis de Vibero splendor of the inquisition was dis- Cagalla, minister of Hormigos, broplayed; but in various other places, ther to the former; Donna Beatrice smaller auto da fe's were instituted,||de Vibero Cagalla, their sister; AIfor the suppression of protestanism.phonso Perez, of Placenzia, doctor of The first that took place, was that theology; Christoval de Ocampo, alof Valladolid, held on Trinity Sun- moner of the grand prior of Castile ; day, May 21st, 1559, in the princi- Christoval de Padilla, knight of Zapal square. It was attended by a mora; Perez de Herrara, judge of most splendid assembly, at which Logrogus; Katharine de Ortega, a were present the prince of Asturias, widow, and daughter to the royal the sister of the king, many grandees treasurer of Castile; Katharine Roof the land, the fairest and noblest man de Pedrosa; Isabella de Estraladies, with their retinue, and the da; Joanna Blazguez, lady of the whole nobility of the province; fil- bedchamber to the Marchioness de ling a vast amphitheatre erected all Alcanizes; and John Garzia, jewelaround the square. The inquisitors ler of Valladolid; experienced this sat on an elevated platform, under a same fate. It is said that the wife canopy, opposite to the altar. Aside of the latter, betrayed the protestant of the latter was a pulpit, from which congregation at Valladolid, and on the celebrated Melchior Cano, bishop that account, received an annuity of the Canary islands, held a long from the royal treasury, during life. speech. Of all that were condemned to be burnt alive, the advocate Antonio de Toro, displayed the greatest fortitude. Bura, inquisitor of Valladolid, approached the prince of Austurias, Don Carlos, and his aunt the princess of Joturra, and caused them to Among those who formed the seswear constantly to protect the in-cond group, were several members quisition, and to persecute the here- of a very noble family; Peter Sartics. miento de Roxas, commandant of Fourteen persons, male and fe- Quietana, son of the Marquis of Pamale, who had been condemned to za; Donna Menzia de Figuersa, his perish in the flames, formed a group wife, and lady of honor to the queen; in the middle of the scaffold. At a Luis de Roxas, their nephew; Anna little distance, stood sixteen others, Henriquez de Roxas, daughter of the condemned to dishonor, confiscation Marquis of Alcanizes, and grandof their property, and perpetual im-daughter of the Marquis of Pasa; and Donna Maria de Roxas, a nun,|| besides whom, sixteen others had aunt of the latter. Besides them, been condemned to the severest and there were in the same group, three most degrading punishments. At the Cazallas, two females and one man. head of the former was Don Carlos One of them, Donna Constancia, sis- de Sero, a nobleman of Verona, son ter of Augustia, and widow of Her- of the bishop of Viaenza, who had mando Ortiz, had thirteen children. performed excellent services for the Next them stood John de Ulloa Ve- emperor, and had received the office reira, commandant of the knights of of corregidor at Toro. His wife, St. John, and from six to eight ser- Donna Isabella, of Castile, was devants, male and female. Also, the scended from King Peter, the cruel. wife of Antonio Herezuelo, Eleonora Sero had openly bought the evangede Cismeros, scarcely 24 years of lical doctrine, and contributed much age, was among the penitent, but to the progress of the reformation at was burnt at a subsequent auto da fe, Valladolid. Next to him stood the as a stubborn heretic. remaining brother of De Cazalla, A second auto da fe was celebrat- Peter, minister of Pedrosa, who had ed at Valladolid in the same year, on been for eighteen months most cruthe 7th of October. It was, if pos-elly tormented in the prisons of the sible, more splendid than the former, inquisition, before sentence of death being attended by the wretched Phi-was pronounced over him. lip II., for whose personal satisfac- Some of the others deserve mention, tion this spectacle was especially in- especially Dominie de Rataz, a Dotended, at his return from the Neth- minician priest, son of the Marquis erlands. The trials had been held of Pasa, who was brought to execuin May, the wretched victims were tion with his mouth gagged. A serinformed of the sentence of death vant of Peter Cazalla, broke loose passed upon them, and by a refinement from the stake to which he was in barbarity, were for four months bound, and rushed down from the kept in cruel suspense, as to their burning pile. But when the monks fate, until the arrival of the monarch. endeavored to persuade him to rePhilip, accompanied by his son, nounce his errors, as they called his sister, the prince of Parma, three them, he voluntarily returned into French ambassadors, a great number the flames, because, as he expressed of archbishops and bishops, noble- himself, he would rather sacrifice his men, dignitaries, civil and military of-body than ruin his soul. Five nuus ficers, as well as many ladies of high of the order of Santa Clara, were rank, approached with royal pomp. burnt at the same time. The bishop of Cuenca held the customary address; after which, the king took the oath, to defend the inquisition, and gave a solemn promise in writing, to that effect. Then began the work of death. Thirteen persons were committed alive to the flames; The protestants of Seville, gave their persecutors still greater occasion to boast of their so called triumph. In this city, likewise, two auto da fe's were held, at which a great number of both sexes were burnt alive; among whom, the most distinguished was John Ponce de|| head with an iron cap, and put an Leon, son of the Count of Bayle, iron gag into his mouth, so that he cousin of the Duke of Anos, and of could not speak, and brought him in the Countess of Beiar, and relative the most terrible condition, to Seof several grandees, who were pre-ville, where he was subjected to the sent at his execution. most exquisite torments. At Valladolid, the house of Donna Vibero was razed, because it had served the Lutherans for a temple. The same was done with that of Donna Isabella de Baena, for the same reason. In the same auto da fe, perished a physician of Seville, Christoval de Losado by name; Ferdinand de San Juan, reading and writing master; Father Marcillo, of the convent of Isidore, and three noble young ladies, Donna Maria de Vernes, Donna Maria. In order not to be outdone by the inquisitors at Valladolid, those of Seville appointed a second of these bloody festivals, on the 22d Decem Among the proselytes whom Don Juan de Gonzales, a priest and famous preacher at Seville, had gained to the protestant doctrine, were his two sisters, who were seized at the same time with him, and thrown into||ber, 1560, at which fourteen persons the prisons of the inquisition, where were burnt alive, and three in effigy, all three suffered incredible torments, besides thirty-four condemned to the until they were delivered by being most degrading penitence. The hisled to the stake. Gonzales was gag-tory of this act, presents a mixture of ged, that he might not speak to the people. atrocities and barbarity, at which human nature revolts. The three persons burnt in effigy, were, Aegidius and his two friends and fellow-laborers in the vineyard, Ponce de la Fuenta and Juan Perez de Penida. Arias, too, who has been mentioned already, and who, notwithstanding his treachery against Acgirius, had not been able to clear himself from all suspicion of heresy, was burnt at the same auto da fe. His funeral pile was surrounded by his disciples, and others of his faith, the monks of the convent of St. Isidore, among whom was Christoval de Aebellano. But none of these monks was to be compared with John de Leon, who seemed to be completely penetrated with the spirit of the gospel. He had formerly left Seville, and gone to Frankfort, on the Main, from thence he went to Geneva, and was on the point of embarking at Zealand, when the officers of the in-ed him with harshness. Next to quisition, who had never lost sight of him, seized him, covered his whole "Among the latter class of the condemned, was a Fleming, who had a vicious wife, which occasioned him to say, that he had purgatory already in his house, which gave occasion to the inquisition, to punish him; further, Diego de Virnes, member of the corporation of Seville; a beggar, named Tuentes, who had expressed himself respecting a priest, that he did not think that God would come from heaven, into the hands of so worthless a man,* who had never given him any alms, but always treat * Viz. at the consecration of the wafer. him were seven women, suspected unto Portugal, and nothing less than of protestantism, two of Judaism, and fire and sword was required to extirone of Mahometanism; finally, a wi-pate them. dow of Seville, Isabel Martinez, with her son Francis. Philip, whose duty it was to protect his people against the inquisiOf the fourteen that were burnt tion, employed every means to inalive, Julius Hermandez, surnamed crease the power of the holy office. the little, deserves admiration for his He caused this bloody tribunal to be unshaken zeal and fortitude. At his introduced in Sardinia. Holland, side was a courageous woman, Donna and the United Provinces where it Francisca Chabez, a nun of the Fran- had been introduced as early as 1522 ciscan order, and of the convent of by Charles V., opposed its exercise. St. Elizabeth. Further, they sacri- The firm resistance of the Flemings, ficed an Englishman, Nicholas Bar- exasperated the despotic spirit of ton, contrary to every law of nations | Philip II., to the utmost, and occaand of humanity. He had come to sioned bloody wars, which, for half a Spain in a vessel filled with mer-century, exhausted the strength and chandise, and was seized by the in- the treasures of Spain. At Milan, quisition-ship and cargo were con- likewise, the success of the inquisifiscated. Another Briton, William tion did not answer the King's exBrooks, and a Frenchman, Fabienne, pectations. Equally powerless, it reshared the same fate. Lastly, the mained at Naples. In Terra Firma, unfortunate Maria Goney, who had in South America, it has been introbetrayed her companions in a fit of duced by Ferdinand. Charles V. insanity, was reunited to those who extended it to the Indies and the islhad suffered martyrdom for the pure ands of the ocean. Philip wished to gospel. give it in the last named countries, The principles of the reformation, the same organization as in Spain, which had made such rapid and ex- but his commands were but impertensive progress in Valladolid and fectly obeyed. A tribunal of the inSeville, opened, though with less ra- quisition was established first at Panpidity, in the other cities of the king-ama; soon after, three others, at Lidom, so that nearly in every city, ma, Medico, and Carthagena; all of there were adherents of the new them subject to the grand inquisition doctrine. In a period of ten years,||at Madrid. from 1560 till 1570, there was in all The first auto da fe, was celebrathe courts of the inquisition through- ted in 1574, the same year that Ferout the kingdom, at least one auto da nando Cortez died. The preparafe. The principal, were celebrated tions were so splendid, that according at Toledo, Granada, Murcia, Valen- to the declarations of eye witnesses, cia, Saryofso, Lojrasuo, and in Galle- nothing was wanting, but the prescia. The doctrines of the reforma-ence of Philip and his court, to rention were already spread over whole der it superior to that of Valladolid. Spain, from the Atlantic to the Med-Here, too, Englishmen and Frenchiterranean, and from the Pyrenees men, and a great many Lutherans, |