The house was filled with people, they being curious to see the witch.

The Marshal and the constables brought her in, and set her in, front of the pulpit; the old creature looking round her wildly, as if wanting her wits, and then covering her face with her dark wrinkled hands; a dismal sight! The minister took his text in Romans xiii.

3, 4, especially the last clause of the 4th verse, relating to rulers: For he beareth not the sword in vain, &c.

He dwelt upon the power of the ruler as a Minister of God, and as a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil; and showeth that the punishment of witches and such as covenant with the Devil is one of the duties expressly enjoined upon rulers by the Word of God, inasmuch as a witch was not to be suffered to live.
He then did solemnly address himself to the condemned woman, quoting 1 Tim.v.

20: "Them that sin, rebuke before all, that others also may fear." The woman was greatly moved, for no doubt the sharp words of the preacher did prick her guilty conscience, and the terrors of hell did take hold of her, so that she was carried out, looking scarcely alive.
They took her, when the lecture was over, to the Court, where the Governor did pronounce sentence of death upon her.