An appeal to thy conscience as thou wilt answer it at the great and…An appeale to thy conscience as thou wilt answere it at the great and…

This was always the course of Gods Saints under the Gospel, insomuch that it grew into a proverbial speech, Preces & lachrymae, arma Ecclesiae: Prayers and tears are the weapons of the Church.

This was alwayes the course of Gods Saints under the Gospel, insomuch that it grew into a proverbiall speech, Preces & lachrymae, arma Ecclesiae: Prayers and teares are the weapons of the Church.

Gregory Nazianzen. Orat. in Julianum, writes thus: Repressus est Julianus Christianorum lachrymis, quas multas multi profuderunt, hoc unum adversus persecutorem medicamentum habentes: Julian was restrained by the tears of the Christians, which many shed forth abundantly, having this only remedy against the persecutor.

Gregory Nazianzen. Orat. in Julianum, writes thus: Repressus est Julianus Christianorum lachrymis, quas multas multi profuderunt, hoc unum adversus persecutorem medicamentum habentes: Julian was restrained by the teares of the Christians, which many shed forth abundantly, having this only remedy against the persecuter.

Hear Peter Martyr, Comment. in lib. Jud. cap. 5. Licet cum aliquos cerimnus in homines pios & Evangelium Filii Dei crudeliter grassari, orare, ut vel eorum mutetur voluntas, vel frangantur vires, quo non omnia possunt efficere, quae designant: quae si nequeant impetrari, saltem id precandum est, ut vires & robur nobis à Deo suppetant, ad ea omnia perferenda, quae ad honorem & gloriam ejus conducant: When we see some men to rage cruelly against the godly, and the Gospel of the Son of God, it is lawful to pray, that either their mind may be changed, or their strength broken, whereby they may not be able to bring to pass all which they purpose: Which if they cannot be obtained, we must verily beg this, that we may have sufficient strength and courage from God, to bear all those things which may tend to his honour and glory.