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And after, for the Christian Church, we know what Christ himself, the great leader of his people suffered, what contradiction of sinners? what contempts? miseries? scorns? scourges? cursed, cruel, shameful death? When Stephen the first Christian Martyr was stoned, Dorotheus witnesseth, that two thousand others which believed on Christ, were put to death the same day. All the twelve Apostles after many sore and grievous afflictions endured, suffered many violent deaths, John only excepted: who yet, as the Scripture testifieth, was banished into Patmos, and as some Histories, that he was by Domitian thrown into a Tun of scalding lead, yet as they say, delivered by a miracle.

And after, for the Christian Church, we know what Christ himself, the great leader of his people suffered, what contradiction of sinners? what contempts? miseries? scorns? scourges? cursed, cruel, shameful death? When Stephen the first Christian Martyr was stoned, Dorotheus witnesseth, that two thousand others which believed on Christ, were put to death the same day. All the twelve Apostles after many sore and grievous afflictions endured, suffered many violent deaths, John onely excepted: who yet, as the Scripture testifieth, was banished into Patmos, and as some Histories, that he was by Domitian thrown into a Tun of scalding lead, yet as they say, delivered by a miracle.

Peter was crucified with his heels upward, because he would not be as Christ was, thinking himself unworthy of that honour: Andrew was crucified by Egeas King of Edessa: James was slain by the sword of Herod, as we find Acts: 12. the beginning: Philip was crucified, and stoned to death at Hieropolis, a City in Phrygia: Bartholomew, after divers persecutions, was beaten down with staves as he was preaching in a City of Armenia, and then crucified, and after his skin flayed off, and beheaded: Thomas was slain with a Dart at Calamina in India: Matthew was run through with a sword, or as some write, slain with a spear: James the son of Alpheus, who was called the just man, was set upon the pinnacle of the Temple, and thrown down, and yet having some life left in him, he was brained with a Fullers club; some Histories ⟨p. 19⟩