Moses his choice with his eye fixed upon Heaven, discovering the happy condition of…

We read likewise of a notable speech of this Lieutenant to the Emperor Julian: While they suffer, they deride us (saith he) and the torments are more fearful to them that stand by, then to the tormented. Gulielmus Parisiensis ^"in his Tractate de moribus, brings in the patience of the Saints triumphing over Persecutors, saying, The Emperors, and Kings, and Princes of the world are but Cooks to prepare dainties for me, in whose rage appears my glory; the magnificence and sublimity of those who are mine, and those that seem to domineer in the world, do serve in my kitchen to prepare food for me. And Tertullian speaking of the patience of Job, and ²the Devils coming to strike him, says, The Devil with his own hands did but make a crown for Job. And (says he) here is the glory, and magnanimity, and sublimity of patience, that it does glory in those things that the world think to get them off from the ways of godliness by. Heretics, says Cyprian, do arm us, when they think by their threatenings to terrify us. Do you think reproaches from you will take off their hearts from all the good they had experience ⟨p. 474⟩of Gods ways? you know not their hearts.

We read likewise of a notable speech of this Lieutenant to the Emperor Julian: While they suffer, they deride us (saith he) and the torments are more fearful to them that stand by, then to the tormented. Gulielmus Parisiensis ^"in his Tractate de moribus, brings in the patience of the Saints triumphing over Persecutors, saying, The Emperors, and Kings, and Princes of the world are but Cooks to prepare dainties for me, in whose rage appears my glory; the magnificence and sublimity of those who are mine, and those that seem to dominier in the world, do serve in my kitchin to prepare food for me. And Tertullian speaking of the patience of Job, and ²the Devils coming to strike him, says, The Devil with his own hands did but make a crown for Job. And (says he) here is the glory, and magnanimity, and sublimity of patience, that it does glory in those things that the world think to get them off from the ways of godliness by. Hereticks, says Cyprian, do arm us, when they think by their threatnings to terrifie us. Do you think reproaches from you will take off their hearts from all the good they had experience