The English Spira being a fearful example of an apostate who had been a preacher many years and then apostatized from his religion, miserably hanged himself, October the 13th, 1684 : giving an account of his dispair, and divers conferences had with him, by several ministers and others of his friends : together with his answer, and papers written by his own hand / left attested by Mr. T. Plant, Mr. H. Collings, Mr. B. Dennis, Mr. B. Keach.

Pag. 22. And that because we are all as dead (whilst we are a∣live) as a Stock or a Stone, or, as a Mechanick had it lately in his Pulpit, as dead as a Corps, that lyes by the Walls in a Cof∣fin, ready for burial; That there is no necessity for obedience to please God, or work out our own Salvation: Nay, as one Mr. B— phrased it, not long since in a Pulpit, It is Devilish, yea, Witch∣craft and Sorcery, for any to preach up doing for the obtain∣ing Life and Salvation; and that love to God himself is not ne∣cessary to a man's being saved.