The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…

3. Voluntate & opere, both in will and deed, as in the Primitive Church, Stephen, Polycarpus, Ignatius, Laurentius, Romanus, Antiochianus, and thousands. And in our days, Cranmer, Latimer, Hooper, Ridley, Farrar, Bradford, Philpot, Sanders, Glover, Taylor, and others innumerable, whose fiery zeal to God's Truth, brought them to the flames of Martyrdom; to seal Christ's Faith. It is not the cruelty of the death, but the innocency and holiness of the cause, that maketh a Martyr. Neither is an erroneous Conscience a sufficient warrant to suffer Martyrdom: because Science in God's Word, must direct Conscience in man's heart. For they who killed the Apostles, in their erroneous Consciences, thought they did God good service: ¹and Paul of zeal breathed out^* slaughters against the Lord's Saints. Now whether the cause of our Seminary Priests and Jesuits be so holy, true, and innocent, as that it may ⟨p. 447⟩warrant their Conscience to suffer death, and to hazard their eternal salvation thereon,³ let Paul's Epistle written to the ancient Christian Romans (but against our new Antichristian Romans) be judge. And it will plainly appear, that the Doctrine which St. Paul taught to the ancient Church of Rome, is ex diametro opposite in 26 fundamental points of true Religion, to that which the new Church of Rome teacheth and maintaineth. For St. Paul taught the Primitive Church of Rome,

1. 1Joh 16. 2.
2. *Acts 9. 1. Phil. 3. 6.
3. 3Epistola ad Romanos, is now Epistola in Romanos.