God’s people have frequently had to suffer persecution of the most dreadful kind. Being “faithful unto death” is not so easy when enemies have the power to make that death fearful. Burning by fire is one such tool the wicked have used. No man was tortured at the stake with more cruelty than the holy martyr, John Lambert. On 22 November 1538 at Smithfield, London, they burnt him with a slow fire, by inches. When his legs were burnt off, and his thighs were mere stumps in the fire—they threw his poor body upon pikes, and cut his flesh with the axes they used for chopping timber. But God was with him in the midst of the flame, and supported him in all the anguishing torture. Just before he expired, he lifted up his hands, all flaming with fire, and cried out to the people, with his dying voice, "None but Christ! None but Christ!"