An exhortation to the carrying of Christs cross with a true and brief confutation…An exhortacion to the carienge of Chrystes crosse wyth a true and brefe confutacion…

But lo, how they are counted among the children of God, and their portion is with the saints. Alas, we have gone amiss, and would not harke•.

But lo, how they are counted among the children of God, and theyr porcyon is wyth ye saintes. Alas, we haue gone amysse, and would not harke•.

Such word […] these shall the wicked say on ••y in hell, though now they triumph as conquerors. And th•• much for you thirdly to look often upon: ⟨p. 31⟩namely, that what soever is done unto you (yea even very death) shall not dash or hurt you, no more then it did Abel, David, Daniel, John Baptiste, Jesus Christ our Lord, with other the dear saints of God, which have suffered for his names sake. Let not reason therefore be judge in this matter, but faith & gods word: in the which if we set before our eyes the shortness of this ¹present time, wherein we suffer, and consider the eternity to cone, we shall find it most certain, that our enemies and persecutors shall be helpless in intolerable pains: and we, if we persevere unto the end, shall be daungerles in such felicity and joy, as the very hart of man in no point ²is able to conceive. Considering this (I say) we can not but even ⟨p. 32⟩contemn and set nothing by the sorrows and griefs of the cross, and lustily go through thick and thin with good courage.

Suche worde 〈…〉 these shall the wycked say on ••y in hell, though now they triumph as cō querours. And th muche for you thirdly to lofe often vpon: