Examples howe God wonderfully defended his children by Angels. Of a Boy at Cygnea a Citie in Germanie.
MElancthon reported that he knew of a surety by a substan∣ciall and credible person, that in a village neare to the Ci∣tie of Cignea a certaine woman commaunded hir sonne to fetch home the Cattel that were féeding by a wooddes side, and when the Boy had stayed somewhat too long, there fell a great snowe that couered all the Hils thereaboutes, night drewe on, neyther coulde the boy passe those Hils: the day following the parentes being no more careful for their cattel, but for the life of theyr sonne, loked for his comming, neither coulde they by reason of the deapth of the snowe passe those Hils to séeke their sonne. The third day they going forth to séeke their boy, they found him sitting in an open place of the wood, where there was no snowe, who smyled vpon his parentes as they came: and the boy being asked why he returned not home, aunswered that he loo∣ked when it should be night, not knowing that a day was already past, nei∣ther had he felt anye annoy or Tempest of the Snowe. And when he was further asked whether he had eaten anye thing? he aunswered, that there came a man vnto him who gaue him breade and Chéese. So doubtlesse this boy was saued by Angels in the middle of Winter, and without doubte that man was an Angell that gaue the boy bread and chéese. Manlius Fo∣lio. 17.