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…

The Apostles and Christians were subject and obedient u•to the laws and merciless cruelties of the Heathenish and bloody Roman Emperors, blessing their persecutors, being patient in tribulation, and always praying for their enemies, as Justin Martyr writes, Apologia secunda, and Ambrose contra Auxentium, and Tertullian in Apologitico. Yea, the Christians were obedient unto that pro••st enemy of Christ and hellish Tyrant Julian the Apostate: See Augustine upon Psalm 124.

The Apostles and Christians were subject and obedient u•to the laws and mercil•sse cruelties of the Heathenish and bloody Roman Emperors, blessing their persecutors, being patient in tribulation, and alwayes praying for their enemies, as Justin Martyr writes, Ap•logia secunda, and Ambrose contra Auxentium, and Tertullian in Apologitico. Yea, the Christians were obedient unto that pro••st enemy of Christ and hellish Tyrant Julian the Apostate: Se Augustine upon Psalme 124.

Nor was this▪ because the Christians were then few in number, and unable to resist, as some do wickedly aver to the great di•inuion both of the¹ glory of God, and praise of his Saints▪ but Tertullian gives the true reason, Apn• sectam Christian orum occidi licet, o• idere non licet; According to the Profession of the Christians, it is lawful to suffer death and be slain, but it is not lawful to slay. The unlawfulness f resisting as that which restrained them. As for their number he relates Apolog. chap. 37. that the Christians were so many, that all * Cities, Townes, Castles, Frts and prisons were filled with them. And also Cyprian ad Demetriaum writes thus, Nm nostrum reluctatr; quamvis nimius et copiosus noster sit numerus, Non of us do resist, although our; number be exceeding great and copious.