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Secondly, consider if Christ had stood upon such ¹terms, as to have said, I could be content indeed that these poor creatures might be delivered from misery, but seeing such grievous evils must be suffered for their deliverance, let them perish; I am not willing to be their deliverer upon such hard terms; What had become of us, if Christ had reasoned thus, if this argument had prevailed with him against us, as it prevails with us against him.

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Thirdly, thou who art so shy of suffering, mayest ¹be forced to suffer in spite of thy heart; and what a sad thing will that be to thee? What a sad thing was it to Cranmer? after he had recanted for fear of ⟨p. 89⟩sufferings, yet he was forced to suffer; what a darkening was it to this spirit, his cause, and name? Mr. Fox relates of a Smith in King Edwards time, who was the means of conversion of a friend of his, who in Queen Mary's time was cast into prison; whereupon he sends to this Smith, who had been the means of his conversion, wondering that he hears not of his apprehending and imprisonment; this Smith sends him word again, that it was true, that he had taught him such and such things, and those things were certain truths; but for his part, he could not burn; but a while after, the house of this Smith was on fire, and he was burnt in it; God made him burn whether he would or no: and so may he make you suffer, whether you will or no, who refuse to suffer for his truth.

Thirdly, thou who art so shy of suffering, mayest ¹be forced to suffer in spight of thy heart; and what a sad thing will that be to thee? What a sad thing was it to Cranmer? after he had recanted for fear of