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And many false prophetes shal arise and deceiue many and bicause of the abundaunce of wickednes the charite of many shall ware cold but he the shall endure vnto th ende the same shal be saffe And this gladde tydinges of the kingdome shall be preached thorowe all the worlde for a witnesse vnto all nacyons and than shall the ende come Whā therfore ye shall see thabo minacion of desolatyon spoken of by Daniel the prophet standing in the holy place Daniel 9. let him that reade it vnderstande it Than let them that be in Iury flee in to the mountaines And him which is on the house toppe not com downe to fet any thing out of his house Neither let him which is in the felde returne backe to fetche his clothes Wo be in those daies to women with childe and to them that geue sucke but praie ye that your flight be not in the winter neither on the saboth daie For than shall be great tribulacion suche as was not from the beginning of the world to thys tyme nor shal be And excepte those dayes should be shortned ther should no flesh be saued but for the chosen sake those dayes shall be shortned Then yf any man shall saye vnto you Lo here is Christ or ther is Christ beleue it not For ther shall aryse false Christes and false prophetes and shal do great miracles and wonders In somuche that yf it were possible euē the chosen persons should be deceyued But take you hede loo I haue tolde you all thynges before Wherfore yf they shal saye vnto you behold he is in the wyldernes go not forthe Beholde in the serrete places beleue not For as the lyghtning commeth out of the east and syneth into the west So shall the cōming of the sone of mā be For whersoeuer a deade carcase is thether wil the Egles be gathered together Forthwith after the tribulatiōs of those dayes the sune shall be darkened and the Wone shall not geue her lyght the starres shall fall from heauen and the powers of heauen shall moue And then shall appeare the signe of the Sonne of man in heauen And then shall al the kinreddes of the earthe lament them selues and they shall se the sonne of man commyng in the cloudes wyth great power and glory And he shall sende his Angels with great power glory with a great trompet And they shall gather together his chosen frō the iiij wyndes frō the one ende of heauen to the other Neither are these thinges which nowe happē to christeans new or sodeine for asmuche as good iust mē such as be thorowly bent to kepe the lawe of God are afraid to staine the innocency of lyfe true religion do alwayes walke the harde straite waye thorowe trobles iniuries and thorowe the greuous manifolde punishementes of deadly malicious emnities Thus is the ryghtfull Abel first killed of his brother Gen. 4. in the very beginning of the worlde 1. Reg. 14. Iacob is copelled to flye 3. Reg. 19. Ioseph is solde king Saul persecuteth the merciful Dauid king Achab endeuoureth to oppresse Helias which did constantly manfully defende the maiestie of God ʒa charias the priest is killed betwene the temple the aulter Math. 23. that he myght there be made a sacrifice him selfe where he had offred sacrifices To be shorte ther are very many martirdomes of the rightfull which are oftentymes celebrate Ther are very many ensamples of faithe godlines left for them that shal come after The .iii. children Ananias Ararias Misahel in age equal in loue of one mynde in faithe stabell in godlynes constaunt and stronger then the flāmyng fire and the paynes wherwith they were tormented openly proclaymed that they serued God alone and only that they knewe hym alone Dani 3. that they worshipped him alone saieng O king Na buchodonosor we haue no nede to make the any answer in this mater For God whome we serue is able to deliuer vs frō the hote burning ouen O king and to ridde vs out of thy handes but yf he will not yet shalt thou knowe that we wil not serue thy goddes nor do reuerēce to the ymage which thou hast set vp Dani. 14. And the godlye man Daniel full of the holy Goost cryeth out sayeth I worship nothing but only my Lorde which hath made heauen earth Tobias also althoughe he was vnder a kingly tyrānous bōdage yet being fre in vnderstāding spirite cōfesseth God do excellētly cōmēd god his power and maiestie saieng Tobi. 13. I wil praise him in the lande of my captiuitie wil shewe his power amōges the sinful nacion But what should I speake of the seuē brethrē in the Machabees whiche do fulfill the nūbre of .vii. for a sacrament of absolute ꝑfectnes 2. Mat. 7. These seuen brethren are so lincked together in martirdome as in the disposicion ordinaūce of God the first seuē dayes do couteyne seuen thousande yeres As the seuen spirites and seuen Angels ar assistant and present before the face of the Lord And the seuen fashoned cādelstickes in the tabernacle of witnesse And the seuen golden candelstickes in the reuelacion And the seuē pillars in Salomon vpō whome wisdome doeth builde her howse Euen so the number also ther of seuen brethren doeth comprehēde in them the number of seuen churches According as we reade in the first boke of kinges that the barrē brought furthe seuen And in Esay seuen womē take holde vpō one mā after whose name they require to benamed And Paule thapostle being myndefull of this laufull and certaine number writeth vnto seuen churches And in the reuelation the Lord doeth directe his diuine commaundementes and heuenly preceptes to seuē churches and their angels The which nēber is now foūde in these brethren that laufull perfeccyon might be fulfilled With the seuen sonnes the mother also their beginning and rote is certeinly copled which afterwardes brought furthe seuen churches herselfe being thorowe goddes voice first and alone foūded vpon the rocke Neither is which out mistery the in the martyrdomes the mother is founde alone with her sōnes For the martyrs which in their sufferinges did testefie them selues to be the sonnes of God ar now cownted to haue none other father but God As the Lorde in the gospel teacheth sayeng call no man your father vpon the earth Math. 23. for ther is but one your father which is in heauen O how glorious confessions did they make Howe noble howe excellent lessons of faithe haue they geuē The king Antiochus being angery yea rather Antichrist re presented by Antiochus went about to defile with the filth of swines fleshe the gloriouse mouthes of the martyrs which thorowe the spirite of cōfession war inuincible And when he had greuously beaten them with scorges and yet neuer the neare his purpose he commaunded the frieng pannes or cauldrons to

the boke of nombres saieng Num. 20. let thē cease to murmur against me thei shal not dye Wee maye not most deare brethren grudge in aduersites but quietly and strōgly suffer what so euer shal happen seing it is written that a trobled spirite is a sacrifice to God Psal 50. and that God despiseth not a contrite and an hūble hart In the Deuteronomy also the holy goost doeth warne vs by Moses and saieth Deu. 8. The Lord thy God shall vexe the and shall throwe hunger vpon the and thine hart shall be knowē whether thou wilt truly kepe his cōmaundementes or not And againe he saieth The Lord your God doeth tempte you that he maie knowe whether you loue the Lord your God with al your harte with al your sowle Thus did Abrahā please God Gene. 22. that he might so do he neither feared to forgo his sonne nor refused to kill him Thou that canst not be content to forgo thy sōne by the lawe and lotte of mortalitie deathe what woldest thou do if thou war cōmaunded to kill thy sōne The feare of God faithe ought to make the redye to al thīges Be it that thou hast lost thy goodes be it that partes of thy body ar cōtinually and greuously vexed with deadly diseases be it that thy wiffe thy children deare frendes ar most dolefully and heauely pluct from the by deathe lette not these thinges be stumbling blockes vnto the but batailes neither let thē weaken or ouerthrowe the faithe of a christian but let them rather declare strenght in the wrastling Forasmuche as all suffering of these present euelles ought to be dispised in hope of the good thinges to come Except ther shall furst be a battayle ther can be no victory but whan a man in the ioyning of the battaile getteth the victory than is ther a crowne also geuen to them that ouercom For in a tempest the gouernour of a shipe is knowen a sowdear is tried in the battaile The bragge is but wanton whā ther is no daunger The conflicte and fight in aduersite is the triall of the truthe The tre that is depely roted is not moued with the blustering windes and a shippe that hathe strong ribbes wel ioyned is beaten of the wawes and receaued no leake and whā the corne is thressed on to barne store the good weghty corne regardeth not the windes but the light chaffe ar blowen quite awaie Euē thus thapostle Paule after shipwracke after scorges after many bitter tormentes of the fleshe and the body he sayeth not that he is greued with these aduersities but amended so that the more greuously he is afficted the more truly he is tried Ther is geuen me sayeth he the prick of my fleshe 2. Cor. 11. the messenger of Satan that dothe buffet me that I should not be exalted For the which I haue beseched the Lord .iii. tymes that it might departe frō me and he sayd vnto me my grace is sufficient for thee for power thorowe weakenes is made perfite Whan therfore either sicknes eyther weaknes or any destructiō dothe violētly assaile vs thā is our strengt made perfect than is faithe crowned yf she indure stedfaste in temptacion Eccle. 27. according as it is written The furnace trieth the potters vessell and the temptacion of troble trieth iuste men Furthermore this difference is betwene vs and other that knowe not God They complayne and grudge in their trobles but as for vs aduersities do not call vs awaye from the truthe vertue and faythe but do strenghten vs in sorowes For wher as nowe the bloody flixe dothe scrape the guttes taketh quite awaye the strenght of the body wheras nowe a fire inwardly cōceaued in woūdes sores doth rage burne wheras now the intralles do shake pant with continuall vomite wheras the eyes are set on fire with the violence of blood wheras some mens fete or other ꝑtes of the body ar cut of that they should not corrupte the rest wheras thorow damages hurtes of the body after the disease once burste out either the goyng is weakened or the hearing stopped or the sight blinded al euery of those profiteth vnto the instruction teaching of fayth To fight against so many violēt assaultes of destructiō death with a stable mīde what a noble courage is it how worthy auauncemēt is it for a mā to stāde right vp among the myseries destructions of mākinde not to lye groueling on th earth with them that haue no hope in the Lord We ought rather to reioyce and embrace the gyft of tyme that whiles we stedfastly declare our faythe and by suffering of paynes go by the narowe waye of Christ vnto Christ we may he beīg iudge receiue the rewarde of lyfe faythe Let hym feare to die but he which being not renewed of the water the spirite is delyuered in bōdage to hel fire Let him feare to dye who be they that feare deathe which is not inrolled in the crosse passion of Christ Let him fear to die which frō this death shall passe to the seconde deathe let him feare to dye whome after the departure frō this worlde an euerlasting flame shal torment with cōtinual punishemēt let him fear to dye which by his long carieng here haue only this benefite that his sorowe torment is for the while differred Many of our brethren dye in this mortalitie that is to say many of our brethren are delyuered from this world As this mortalitie is a pestilēce to the Iewes gentiles that are Christes enemies euen so to goddes seruaūtes it is an holsome departure Where as without difference of mankinde the iust die with thoniuste ye maye not thinke that both good euel are destroyed alyke The iuste are called hēce to refreshing thoniuste are caught awaye to punishment Defence is quickly geuen to thē that beleue but to thōbeleuers paine We are moste dearely beloued brethren vncircūspecte and vnthankful to Goddes benefites neither do we knowe what is geuen vnto vs. The virgins being in safetie lo depte hēce in peace with their glory fearing nothing the threateninges deflowringes brothel houses of Antichrist now cōming The childrē escape the daungers of their slippery age do luckely attayne the rewarde of cōtinēcy innocency The tender matrone feareth now no more tormentes which thorowe a swift deathe is escaped the feare of persecutyon and the handes and tormentes of the hang man Thorowe thextreme feare of mortalitie tyme the luke warme are made hote the dissolute are hard wrongen the slothefull ar reised vp the shrinkers are compelled to returne the heathē are constrained to beleue the true faithfull people are called to rest and a newe a great arinye ys gathered together with a mightier force to the battayle to fight when the filde shall beginne without any feare of deathe which in the tyme of mortalitie came in to the warfare

salute our parentes A great number of our parentes brethrē and sonnes do ther abide vs a great company do wishe for vs which are now sure of their owne immortalitie and carefull for our safetye To come to the sight and imbrasing of these how great ioye shall it be bothe to vs and them what maner of pleasure is this of the heauenly kingdomes to be with out the feare of dieing and to lyue with euerlastyngnes How excellent and perpetuall happines is this Ther is the glorious cōpany of the Apostles Ther are the numbre of the reioysing prophetes Ther are an infinite companye of martyrs that are crowned for the victory of their fight and suffering The triumphing virgins are there which thorow the strenght of cōtinency haue subdued the luste of the fleshe and bodye Ther are the mercyfull rewarded which haue done the workes of ryghtfulnesse by geuyng almes fedyng the poore which obseruing the Lordes cōmaūdementes haue chaunged their earthly patrimonies for heauenly treasures Let vs most dearly beloued brethren with earnest desire make haste vnto these le● vs wishe that we maye quickely be with them that it maye be our fortune spedely to come to Christ Let God se this cogitacion and thought of oures let the Lorde Christ beholde this purpose of our mynde and faythe which shall gyue the greater rewardes of his glory to them whose desyres are more earnest to be with him Amen A boke of the holy martir G. Chpriane conicining an exhortation to martyrdome diuided into xii chapters wherin the sūme of the hole mater is more fully knowen written vnto Fortunatus FOrasmuche as O most deare Fortunatus the heuy burden of trobles and persecutiōs do lye vpon the churche nowe in th ende of the world the maliciouse tyme of Antichrist beginneth to approche thou hast desired me to prepare strenghtē the mindes of the brethren with exhortacions of the holy scriptures wherby Christes souldiers myght be encorraged vnto the spiritual heauenly fight It behoued me to obey this thy most necessary desire that to the vttermost of our lytle power by the helpe of goddes inspiracion we might bring furth out of goddes worde as it were certeine armores and defences for the brethren that shall fight For it is but a smale mater for vs to raise vp goddes people with the trompe of our voice excepte we strenghten by the holy scriptures the faithe of suche as beleue and the deuoute vertue that is consecrate vnto God For what thing agreeth better and more with our pastorall cure and charge then to prepare and furnishe the people committed vnto vs of God and the armey standing in the heauēly tentes against the arrowes and dartes of the deuell For he can not be a mete souldear for the battaile which haue not ben before exercised in the felde Or who seking a victorious crowne shall in the course or rūnyng place be crowned except beforehande he do consyder the experience of his strenght and cōnyng The aduersary enemy with whom we fight is auncient of long experiēce For six thousande yeres are fully complete sence the deuel began to fight against man Therfore he hath now learned euē by aūcient exercise al kindes of tētaciōs al sottelties deceytes to cast vs downe Yf he shal fynde Christes souldear vnprepared yf he shal fynd him ygnoraūt negligent not diligently watching he encloseth in the ignoraunt he deceaueth the negligent he begyseth the folishe But yf any man keaping the Lordes commaūdementes and stycking manfully vnto Christ shall stand vp against him he must nedes be ouercom bicause Christ whom man confesseth is inuincible But to make a shorte tale lest with long writing I should wery the most deare brother being occupied either in hearing or in reading I haue knit vp the mater in a fewe wordes that vnto the titles that at set abrode which euery mā ought bothe to knowe and remēber I might adde the Lordes wordes by authorire of the diuine scriptures cōfirme the which I had set before mens eies so that I maye not so muche seame to haue sent vnto the this treatise of myne owne writig as to haue geuen occasion to other to write treatesis which thing being vsed of euery one is profitable for many For if I should now geue vnto the a garmēt ready made the garment should be myne which an other should we are paraduenture a thing made for an other wold not serue for the proportiō and stature of his body But now I haue sent vnto the the selfe wolle and purple of the lanibe by whom we are redempre made aliue which whan thou hast rereaued thou shalt make for thy selfe a coate at thine owne pleasure wherin thou shalt more reioyce than in thy accustomed and proper garmētes and thou shalt deliuer this that we haue sent vnto others that they maye also according to their owne will make for them selues garmentes that al men the old nakednes being couered maye put on the garmentes of Christ being clothed word we the sanctificacion of the heauenly grace Furthermore in this most necessarye exhortaciō which maye stire vp men to suffer martyrdome I haue perceaued this coūcel also most deare brother to be bothe profitable holsome to cut of the lettes and hinderaunces of our owne wordes and to take awaye the goinges about the bushe of mans talke and to allege suche thynges only as God him selfe speaketh wherby Christ prouoketh his seruautes to martyrdome For the selfe commaundemeetes of the Lord as armors and weapons ought to be put in to the myndes of them that fight Let them be the exhortacions of the warlike trompet let them be the peale of trompettes that maye prouoke to fyght Thorowe them let the eares be lifte vp thorowe them let the mindes be instructed taught thorowe them let the strenght boche of the mynde body be cōfirmed to suffer all maner of afflictions and tormentes Wherfore let vs which by the sufferaūce of God haue geuen the first baptisme vn to them that beleue prepare euery mā to another baptisme also putting them in mynde and teaching that this baptisme is in grace greater in power myghtier in honour more precious a baptisme wherin Angels baptise and wherin God and his Christ reioyse a baptisme after the receyte wherof no man synneth any more a baptisme that maketh perfecte the encrease of our fayth a baptisme that do immediatly couple vs vnto God when we departe this worlde In the baptisme of water is receyued the remission of synnes in the baptisme of blood the crowne of vertues This thing ought to be embrased and wyshed for and to be desyred by the seruent prayers of vs all that we which are the seruaūtes of God may be also his frendes The first Chapter In exhorting therfore preparing our brethren The contentes of the. 12. chapters thorowe the stedfastnesse of faythe vertue to attayne the glorye of confessing the Lorde and to arme

them to the bataile of persecutiō and suffering we must first of al declare that the ydolles which mā mateth for himselfe are no goddes for the thinges that are made are not greater than their mater neither can these ydolles defende and saue any man which wolde them selues peryshe from their temples except they were 〈◊〉 of man Neither ought thelementes to be worshipped which according to thordenaunce and commaūdement of God do serue man The ydolles being ouerthrowē and the maner of the lemonies declared The. 2. chap. we must shewe that the Lorde onlye ought to be worshipped To these then must we adde what is the threatning of God against them that do sacrifice to ydolles We must teache furthermore that God wil not easely pardon Idolarers And that God is so greued with Idolatrie that he hathe also cōmaunded them to be slayne which haue en●ysed men to sacrifice and serue ydolles To these muste be added that the whiche are redemed and made aly●e thorow the blood of Christ ought to ●●e ferre nothing before Christ because he preserred nothing before vs but for our sales he preferred aduersitie before prosperitie pouertie before ryches bōdage before lordship death before immortalitie Cōtrarywyse we in our sufferinges preferre the ryches and pleasures of paradise before worldlye pouertie the dominion and euerlasting kingdome before temporall bondage immortalitie before deathe God and Christ before the deuell and Antichrist We ought also to bring to remembraunce that none that are escaped out of the deuelles clouches and delyuered from the snares of the worlde shoulde desire yf they happen to fall into affliccions and troubles to go forthe againe vnto the worlde and so lose that they had escaped But rather that they ought to endure continue in faythe inthe truthe and in the perfectyon of the heuenly and spirituall grace that they maye artayne the victory and crowne We must also shewe that afflictions and persecutions doo therfore happen that we maye be tryed And that the sufferinges of wronge and batailes of persecution ought not to be feared because the Loide is more myghty to defende than the deuel is to fight against vs. And to the intent no man should be afrayde and trobled thorowe afflictiōs and persecutions which we suffer in this worlde we must proue that it was toloe beforehāde that the worlde should hate vs and that it should stire vp persecutions against vs that the truthe of Goddes promise in rewardes that shal hereafter folowe myght manifestly appeare by this self thīg in that these persecutions do happē Neither dothe any newe thing happen nowe vnto christians for asmuche as good mē from the beginning of the world haue ben persecuted the rightful haue ben oppressed and Filled of the vnrightfull Last of all we must declare what hope and what rewarde abydeth the rightfull men and martyrs after the afflictions and passyons of this liffe and that we shall receiue more in rewarde of our suffering than we suffer here in the self afflictyons The first chapter THat ydolles are no goddes and that none of thelemēs should he worshipped in goddes stede is manifest in the Cxiij psalme The ydolles of the gētiles ar gold siluer Psal 113. the workes of mens handes Mowthes haue they but they speake not they haue eyes and see not They haue eares heare not neither is ther any breath in theyr mowthe Let them be like vnto them that make them In likemaner in the boke of the wisdome of Salamon it is writen Sap. 15. They haue estemed as Goddes all thidolles of the nacions which haue neither eyes to see neither nostrels to drawe brethe neither eares to heare nor fingars on theyr handes to feale Their fete also are vnhapte and sloo to walke For man made them and he that hathe a borowed spirite fashtoned them But no man can make a God like vnto him selfe For Seing he ys mortal that is also but a deade thing which he fashioneth with vngodlye handes For he that maketh them is more excellēt than the thinges which he worshippeth We reade also in the boke of Exodus Exod. 2● ▪ Thou shall not make for thy selfe any grauen ymage neither the likenes of any thing Further as touchīg thelementes Salamon saith Neither toke they so muche regarde of the workes that ar made Sapi. 1● as to knowe who was the craftesman of them but some toke the fire some the aire some the winde some the course of the starres some the great water some the Sūne Mone for goddes But thoughe they had suche pleasure in their veauty that they thought them to haue ben Goddes yet sholde they haue knowe howe muche more fairer ys he that made them Or yf they marueled at the power and workes of them they might haue perceiued therby that he that made these mighty thinges is mightyer then they The .ij. chapter THat god only ought to be worshipped we reade in Deuterono Deu. ● Exo. 〈◊〉 Thou shalt worshippe thy Lord God and him only shalt thou serue Also in Exo dus Thou shalt haue non other gods besides me In like maner in the same boke of Deuteronomy Se now how the I I am he and that ther is no God besides me Deu. 32. I can kil and make aliue I strike and heale againe neither is ther any that can deliuer any man out of my handes Apo. 14. Iohan also in the reuelacion saithe And I sawo an Angel flie in the myddes of heauē hauing an euerlstaing gospel to praethe vnto them that litte and dwelle on thearthe and to all nacions kinreds tonges and people saing with a loude voice Feare God rather and giue honour to him for the howre of his iugement is com and worshippe him that made heauen and earthe the sed and all that in them ys In like maner also the Lord maketh mentyon in the gospell of the first and second comaūdement saing He are Israel The Lord thy God ys one Lord And thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thy harte Math. 22. and with al thy sowle and with al thy strenght This ys the first commaundement and the second ys like vnto this Thou shalt loue thy neyghboure as thy selfe In these two cōmaundementes-consisteth the host lawe ꝑphetes And againe This is eternall liffe Ioan. 17. that they should knowe the alone the true God Iesus Christ whome thou hast sent The .iij. chapter VVhat God threatneth to thē the do sacrifice to ydols we maye reade in Exodus thus Exod. 22. He the offereth vnto any goddes saue to the Lord only shal be roted out Also in the Deu teronomye Deu. 32. They offered vnto druels and not vnto God Esa 2. In like maner in Esay They worshipped the Idolles which their owne fingars had made Ther kneleth the man ther falleth the man downe before them so that thou canst not bring him awaye frō thēce And againe To them

you haue powred out your drinke offeringes and to thē you haue offered your sacrifices shal not I be angry with these thīges saieth the Lord In like maner Hieremy saith walke not after straūge goddes to serue them worshippe thē not Hiere 7. neither prouoke me thorowe the workes of your hādes to scatter you abrode Io. also in the reuelaciō saithe Apo. 14. If any doo worshippe the best and his ymage shall receue his marke in his forehead or in his hād he also shal drin ke of the wine of Goddes wrathe myngled in the cuppe of his wrathe he shal be punished with fire brymstone in the presence of the holy angels in the presence of the lambe And the smoke of their tormentes shal ascēde vp euermore Neither shal they haue any rest daye or night who so euer they be that shall worshipe the best his ymage The .iiij. chapter THat God wil not easely iꝑdon ydolaters it appeareth by Moses in Exodus the praieth for the people and yet obteyned not Oh Lorde saithe he this people haue synned a great synne Exod. 32. and made for them selues Goddes of gold yet forgeue them their sinne I beseche the yf not wipe me out of the boke which thou hast writē And the Lord said vnto Moses I will put him out of my boke that hathe synned against me In like maner whan Ieremy praied for the people the Lord spake vnto him saieng Iere. 7. Thou shalt not praie for this people thou shalt neither geue thankes nor byd praier for thē for I wil not heare them in the tyme that they shall call vpon me in the tyme of theyr troble Ezech. 14. Ezechiell also threateneth the same wrathe of God against them the synne against God saieng and the worde of the Lord came vnto me saieng Thou sonne of man whan the land sinneth against me and goeth furthe in wickednes I shall stretche out myne hād vpon it and destroy all the prouision of their bread and I will send hūger among them to destroye man best in the land And thoughe Noah Daniel Iob these .iii. mē war amōg thē yet shall they deliuer neither sonnes nor daughters but shall them selues only be saffe In likemaner in the furst boke of kings it is writē yf one man synne agaist an other 1. Reg. 2. they shal make intercession vnto the Lord for him but if a man synne against the Lord who shall praiē for him The .v. chapter THat God is soangrey with ydolatry that he hathe also cōmaunded thē to be slayne which haue entised others to offer to ydolles and to serue them we reade in the Deuteronomy Deu. 13. Yf thy brother or thyne owne sonne or thy daughter or thy wiffe the lieth in thy bosome or thy frende which is as thine owne sowle vnto the entise the secretly saiēg let vs go serue straūge goddes the Goddes of the gētiles thou shalt not cōsent vnto him nor herken vnto him neither shal thine eye spare him nor kepe him secrete but shalt vtter him Thine hande shall be first vpon him to kill him and than the handes of all the people To be short they shal stone him and he shall dye because he went about to turne thee awaye frō the Lorde thy God And agayne the Lord speaketh and sayeth that a cytie ought not to be spared althou the hole tytie shall cōsent to Idolatrie Yf thou shalt heare saye of one of thy cyties which the Lorde thy God shall geue thee to dwel in that they saye Let vs go and serue straunge Goddes whiche thou haste not knowen Thou shalt smyte kill with th edge of the sworde all that are in that cytie and thou shalt burne the cytie with fire it shall neuer more be inhabited Yea it shall neuer be buylt againe that God may turne frō his fearce wrathe And the Lorde shal shewe the mercy and haue compassiō on the and multiply the yf thou shalt heare the voice of the Lorde thy God and keape his cōmaūde mentes Mathathias beyng myndfull of the force of this cōmaūdement slewe him that came to thaltar to do sacrifice 1. Mac. 2. But yf before the comming of Christ these cōmaūdemētes touching the worshipīg of God and despising of ydolles war obscrued keapt How muche more ought they to be keapt after the comming of Christ Forasmuche as he at his comming did not exhorte vs with wordes only but also with deades which after he had suffred al maner of iniure is and reuiling wordes was also crucified to teache vs by his example bothe to suffer and die that who so euer he be that will not suffer for his sake should be vtterly wtout excuse forasmuche as he hathe suffred for vs. And seing the he hathe suffred for other mens synnes muche more ought euery mā to suffer for his owne synnes And therfore in the gospel he treatneth and saithe who so euer shal confesse me before men Math. 10. him wil I also confesse before my father which is in heauē but who so euer shall denye me before men him wil I also denye before my father which is in heauē In like maner thapostle paule saithe Yf we die together with him we shall also liue together with him 2. Tim. 2. Yf we suffer with him we shall also raygne together with him Yf we denye him he shall also denye vs. Iohan also saieth ● Ioan. 2. he that denieth the sonne hathe not the father he that confesseth the sonne hathe bothe the sonne and the father Wherfore the Lord dothe exhorte and strenghten vs to despise deathe Math. 10. saieng Feare ye not them that kil the body but can not kill the sowle but rather feare him which can kille bothe sowle and body in to hell fire Ioan. 12. And againe he saieth he that loueth his life shall lose it and he that hateth his liffe in this worlde shall preserue it vnto eternal liffe The .vi. chapter THat we which ar redēpte made aliue thorowe the blode of Christ ought to preferre no thing before Christ the Lord speaketh in the gospel and saithe he that loueth father or mother aboue me is not worthy of me Math. 10. And he that taketh not vp his crosse folowe me is not worthy of me In the Deuteronomy it is also writē in like maner Deu. 33. They that saie to father or mother I knowe the not the parents that haue not knowē their owne sōnes these haue keapt thy commaundementes and obserued thy testament Rom. 8. In like maner saieth thapostle Paule Who shall separate vs from the charite of Christ shall tribulacion or anguishe either persecution or hungar either nakednes or daunger or the sword as it is writen For thy sake are we killed al the daie long Psal 43 and are cownted as shepe appointed to be slayne Neuertheles in all these thinges we ouercome thorowe his helpe that