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Martyrologia alphabetikē, or, An alphabetical martyrology containing the trials and dying expressions of many…Martyrologia alphabetikē, or, An alphabetical martyrology containing the tryals and dying expressions of many…
Martyrologia alphabetikē, or, An alphabetical martyrology containing the trials and dying expressions of many martyrs of note since Christ : extracted out of Fox's Acts and monuments of the church : with an alphabetical list of God's judgements remarkably shown on many noted and cruel persecutors : together with an appendix of things pertinent to martyrology by N.T., M.A.T.C.C. [i.e. Master of Arts Trinity College Cambridge]Martyrologia alphabetikē, or, An alphabetical martyrology containing the tryals and dying expressions of many martyrs of note since Christ : extracted out of Foxe's Acts and monuments of the church : with an alphabetical list of God's judgements remarkably shown on many noted and cruel persecutors : together with an appendix of things pertinent to martyrology by N.T., M.A.T.C.C. [i.e. Master of Arts Trinity College Cambridge]
London: printed for R. Butler, 1677
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
In a Letter he wrote out of Prison to divers Friends, he undervalues the worldly joys and troubles, in comparison of Hells misery, or Heavens glory; and exhorts them to constancy, thus: It was an easy thing to hold with God and Christ, whilst the Prince and World held with him; but now the World hateth him, it is the true trial who be his: Let us not run when it is most time to fight; none shall be Crowned, but them that fight manfully: Beware of beholding the Worlds felicity, or misery, too much; whose love, or fear, draweth from God: Think the felicity of the World good, but yet no otherwise than stands with Gods favour: It is to be kept, yet so as we lose not God; of adversity, judge ⟨p. 82⟩the same: Imprisonment is painful, yet liberty, on evil terms, worse: I must be alone, and solitary; yet that is better, and to have God with us, than to enjoy the company of the wicked: Loss of goods is great, but loss of Gods favour greater: I shall dye by the hands of cruel Men; but he is blessed that loseth a life full of misery, and findeth a life full of eternal joys: Neither felicity, or misery, in the World, can be great, if compared with joys, or pains, in the World to come. Vol. 3. p. 156, 157.
In a Letter he wrote out of Prison to divers Friends, he undervalues the worldly joyes and troubles, in comparison of Hells misery, or Heavens glory; and exhorts them to constancy, thus: It was an easie thing to hold with God and Christ, whilst the Prince and World held with him; but now the World hateth him, it is the true tryal who be his: Let us not run when it is most time to fight; none shall be Crowned, but them that fight manfully: Beware of beholding the Worlds felicity, or misery, too much; whose love, or fear, draweth from God: Think the felicity of the World good, but yet no otherwise than stands with Gods favour: It is to be kept, yet so as we lose not God; of adversity, judge ⟨p. 82⟩the same: Imprisonment is painful, yet liberty, on evil terms, worse: I must be alone, and solitary; yet that is better, and to have God with us, than to enjoy the company of the wicked: Loss of goods is great, but loss of Gods favour greater: I shall dye by the hands of cruel Men; but he is blessed that loseth a life full of misery, and findeth a life full of eternal ioyes: Neither felicity, or misery, in the World, can be great, if compared with joys, or pains, in the World to come. Vol. 3. p. 156, 157.