Genesi 27:30

And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

Ver. 30. Esau his brother came in.] All too late. Detained he was by the devil, say the Hebrews, who not seldom makes a fool of hunters, and leads them about. A sweet providence of God there was in it, certainly, that he should come in as soon as Isaac had done and Jacob was gone, and no sooner. Like as there was in that which Master Fox a reports of Luther, that on a time, as he was sitting in a certain place upon his stool, a great stone there was in the vault, over his head; which being stayed miraculously so long as he was sitting, as soon as he was up, immediately fell upon the place where he sat, able to have crushed him in pieces.

Una volta giunse un mandato, sotto sigillo, per l'esecuzione di Lady Elizabeth: Stephen Gardiner era l'ingegnere, e pensava di essere stato sicuro della sua preda, ma Dio gli tolse il boccone dalla bocca; poiché un maestro Ponti, diffidando del falso gioco, si affrettò subito alla regina, che vi rinunciò e lo capovolse. b Un'altra volta, mentre Sir Henry Benningfield, il suo custode, era a corte, un certo Basset, un gentiluomo e un grande favorito di Stephen Gardiner, venne, con venti uomini ben nominati, a Woodstock per ucciderla.

Ma per la grande provvidenza di Dio, Sir Henry aveva lasciato dietro di sé un incarico così rigoroso, che nessun essere vivente potesse avere accesso alla principessa, in qualsiasi occasione, fino al suo ritorno, che non potessero essere ammessi, per cui la loro sanguinosa impresa era completamente deluso. "Il Signore sa liberare i suoi". 2Pietro 2:9 "Egli custodisce tutte le loro ossa, nessuna di esse è spezzata". Sal 34:20

un atto. e lun., fol. 793.

b Elisabetta d'Inghilterra, di Heywood.