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Thirdly,¹ we must deny our selves, by being willing to suffer the most disgraceful thing that can be put upon us for the cause of Christ: though we should have all our kindred frown upon us, and cast us off, and scorn, and account us as a disgrace unto them, we must be willing to be deprived of titles of honour, of all our estates, of all that glory we have, that we are borne unto, to be imprisoned, to endure any kind of torture, or death that God ⟨p. 31⟩shall call us unto for his names sake: Romanus that blessed Martyr was of noble birth, and yet endured extreme tortures for Christ, when they whipped his body with cords that had leads at the end of them, so as they tore his flesh, that his very bowels were seen, yet he cried out to his tormentors, that they should not spare him for his noble birth.² Theodoret reports of Hormisda a noble man in the King of Persia his Court, because he would not deny Christ, he was put into ragged clothes, deprived of his honours, and set to keep the Camels; after a long time, the King seeing of him in that base condition he was, and remembering his former fortunes, he pitied him, & caused him to be brought into the palace, and to be clothed again like a noble man, and then persuades him to deny Christ; he presently rends his silken clothes, and says, If for these you think to have me deny my faith, take them again: and so with scorn he was cast out.

Thirdly,¹ we must deny our selves, by being willing to suffer the most disgracefull thing that can be put upon us for the cause of Christ: though we should have all our kindred frowne upon us, and cast us off, and scorne, and account us as a disgrace unto them, we must bee willing to be deprived of titles of honour, of all our estates, of all that glory we have, that we are borne unto, to be imprisoned, to endure any kinde of torture, or death that God ⟨p. 31⟩shall call us unto for his names sake: Romanus that blessed Martyre was of noble birth, and yet endured extreme tortures for Christ, when they whipt his body with cords that had leades at the end of thē, so as they tore his flesh, that his very bowells were seene, yet he cryed out to his tormentors, that they should not spare him for his noble birth.