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God is faithful which permitteth not, that ye be tempted and afflicted ⟨image 33⟩above your strength: but shall deliver you in your temptations, that ye may suffer and bear it, and in that the one doth feel or taste most grief, there hath he most fruit and help of God, in such wise, that it should see me rather to be an inequality of passions, then otherwise.

God is faithful whiche permitteth not, that ye bee temptid and afflicted ⟨image 33⟩aboue your strength: but shall deliuer you in your temptations, that ye may suffer and beare it, and in that ye one dooth feele or taste moste greef, there hath hee moste frute and help of God, in suche wise, that it should see me rather to bee an inequality of passions, then otherwise.

For Saint John Baptist (which was miserably beheaded by Herod) may it not make us all astonied, that such a great & excellent personage as hath not been one among those that are borne of women so great, the singular friend of the spouse christ, forerunner of the Son of God, greater then all the Prophets, nevertheless was not put to death, by public sentence: nor is not accused of malice or envy, as was Jesus Christ nor yet because of the people, but for the love of a dancer, the daughter of an adulteress and in prison, this shameful death of this holy person and his life taken away so vilainly ⟨p. 21⟩•ud of so wicked a manner, being in •he hands of such a most poisoned • abominable adulterer, this ought at the least for to mitigate our evils and all our afflictions. But where was God then, which might have seen all these things? Or where was the Lord Jesus now, which hearing these things, and hath feigned to dissemble or not to hear them?