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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
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4. Satan's conflict in you tempting, and your strife against sin, is an evidence you are the Child of God, whom he may unawares cause to fall by sin, but he shall never overcome; for God doth it but to try your Faith, and he beholds your resistance, is pleased with it, and will never forsake you: The Just falls 7 times a day, but yet he riseth again.
5. Rejoice therein, in that your temptation ⟨p. 133⟩and sorrow shall add to your glory. Pag. 598.
5. Rejoyce therein, in that your temptation ⟨p. 133⟩and sorrow shall add to your glory. Pag. 598.
In divers Letters he much exhorts to Martyrdom; and in one to the Lady Vane, he thus writes: The World wonders we can be merry in such extreme misery, but our God is omnipotent who turns misery into felicity. Believe me, dear Sister, there is no such joy in the World, as the People of God have under the Cross: I speak by experience, therefore believe me, and fear nothing that the World can do; for when they imprison our Bodies, they set at liberty our Souls; when they kill us, they bring us to Everlasting Life: and what greater glory can there be than to be at conformity with Christ, which afflictions do work in us. Pag. 603. In another he writes to her, he saith; I that am under the Cross have felt more true joy and consolation in it than ever I did by any benefit that God hath given me in all my life before; for the more the World hates, the nigher God is unto us, and there is no joy but in God. Pag. 604. In another to that Lady, he writes thus: We have cause to be glad of