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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: by his cousin Claude Formy; and well worth reading they are to any
man who wishes to know how to die. Rondelet would have no tidings
of his illness sent to Montpellier. He was happy, he said, in dying
away from the tears of his household, and "safe from insult." He
dreaded, one may suppose, lest priests and friars should force their
way to his bedside, and try to extort some recantation from the
great savant, the honour and glory of their city. So they sent for
no priest to Realmont; but round his bed a knot of Calvinist
gentlemen and ministers read the Scriptures, and sang David's
psalms, and prayed; and Rondelet prayed with them through long
agonies, and so went home to God.
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