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At a time
when Grynaeus, Melancthon, and several other learned men, were discoursing together
at an house, in Spyres, there came a man of very grave and goodly countenance
into the house, desiring to speak with Melancthon; who going forth to him, he
told him that within one hour some officers would be at that house to
apprehend Grynaeus, and therefore required Melancthon to advise Grynaeus to
flee out of that city; and having so spoken, he vanished out of sight.
Melancthon, returning into the room, recounted the words of this strange
monitor; whereupon Grynaeus instantly departed; and he had no sooner boated
himself upon the Rhine, but officers came to lay hold of him. This story is
mentioned by Melancthon in his commentary upon Daniel. And he concludeth that
the man who had appeared to him was indeed an angel, sent in order to
Grynaeus his being delivered from the bloody hands of them that sought his
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From: A
History of God’s Remarkable Providences in Colonial New England by Increase
Mather, pag. 145, 1997, Back Home Industries,
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