Mbfeshis Sel fe-denial that while you fuffer, the Church and your Country profpers. ft was the ho- nour oftheFdbii, znd the Fabritii,that they being pore themHires they made the Common- wea`rh rich : Ven- ture you your felvcs for God, and his people, and truft God wich your ho- nours,eflatesand pofterities,do not fay, youarealone, you know not how ma- ny you may have to cleave to you, if youhavea heart to appeare ; howfoe- NKr defolate rightcoufneffe, faith Hie- row , lofeth not her comfort, which bathGod to be with it, that is more then all. It was a brave refolution of Lrther, which we finde in oneof his Epifties to Sta pities, whereinheeprofeffeth, that hehad rather be accounted any thing, then bee accufed of wicked filence in Gods caufe: Let Mcbe accounted,íaies he, proud, covetous, yea a murderer, yea, guiltyofall vices, fo 1 be not pro ved to bee guilty of wicked filence, while theLordand hiscaufedoe fuffcr. Andknow, that the more difhonoured, and trampled upon, any caufe of God is, the more heexpeas that you fnould F 4 appeare Solstiu;mi nonperdit dej oiata1u- titi conrortizm: Dens omni cclebritate feffivior. Hiero. ad Virg.in exil. miffam. Inveniarfan Csperbus,a- varus, adrel ter,homicida, anti-papa, et omniumvi- tioruni reas, modo irnpii Jlentji non arguar, darn Dominospa- titur.Luth cp.ad Staup.
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