Being brought at last by the Devils to an exceeding
long and large Field, whose bounds were out of sight, he there
discover'd an infinite Number of Men and Women lying naked, flat on
their Bellies, with great Iron Spikes red hot fastening their Hands
and Feet to the Ground, and Miserably torturing them. Nay and
observed them now and then, biteing the Earth for Rage and Pain,
crying and bawling out; "Spare, spare; Pity, pity: when there was
none by, who wou'd Spare or Pity. On the contrary, the Devils ran
over them with great Scourges in their Hands lashing the Wretches,
and saying to the Soldier: "Thus shalt thou be tortur'd if thou dost
not agree to go back to the Door from when thou camest, and to which
we will conduct thee in Peace." But the Soldier calling to mind how
God had before delivered him, despised their Menaces: Then the
Devils cast him down on the Ground, and began to torture him. But
upon his invocating the Lord Jesus, they failed in their attempt.
"Leaving then this Field, they drag him to another that was full of
great Misery; for between this and the former, there was this
difference, that whereas in the former the wretched People lay flat
on their Bellies, here they sat only on their Buttocks, some whereof
were surrounded with fiery Dragons, gnawing and biteing them after a
lamentable manner. Others had fiery Serpents twisted about their
Heads and Necks, fixing their Stings in their Hearts.
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