For he hath made him to be ſinne for vs, who knewe no ſinne,[…]

… the ministers, in order to slay him in accordance with the King's command, cut at him with all kinds of swords, but they availed naught and were unable; they put him into a coppern casket and cast him into the Ganges River.

I must rub up my balancing, and chasing, and boring.

The story is true beyond question.