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Every spirit is not fit for sufferings, but a spirit truly raised by Faith,¹ a princely spirit, so Luther calls it; to dare to venture loss of estate and life for the Name of Christ, to this a Princely spirit is required. When Valens the Emperor sent his Officer to Basilius, seeking to turn him from the Faith, he first offered him great preferments, but Basil rejected them with scorn, Offer these things, says he, to children; then he threatens him most grievously: Basil contemns all his threatenings; ⟨p. 175⟩Threaten, says he, your purple Gallants, that give themselves to their pleasures. And Basil in his Homily in Quadraginta Martyrs, ²brings them in answering the offers of worldly preferments; Why do you promise us these small things of the world, which you account great, when as the whole world is despised by us? What great spirits did Faith put into some of these worthies mentioned in this chapter, which appears by the great things that they did by their Faith? vers. 33. 34. Through Faith they subdued Kingdoms, they stopped the mouths of Lions: and this is observable, that working righteousness, and obtaining the promises are put between these two; as if these were works of the same rank, fit to be joined with such great things as those were. Again, by Faith they quenched the violence of the fire: of weak, they were made strong; they waxed valiant in fight, they turned to flight the Armies of the Aliens.

Every spirit is not fit for sufferings, but a spirit truely raised by Faith,¹ a princely spirit, so Luther calls it; to dare to venture losse of estate and life for the Name of Christ, to this a Princely spirit is required. When Valens the Emperour sent his Officer to Basilius, seeking to turne him from the Faith, hee first offered him great preferments, but Basil rejected them with scorne, Offer these things, sayes he, to children; then he threatens him most grievously: Basil contemnes all his threatnings; ⟨p. 175⟩Threaten, sayes he, your purple Gallants, that give themselves to their pleasures. And Basil in his Homily in Quadraginta Martyres,