to runne very ioyful and glad
into torments, scaffolds, gibbets,
Crosses, fires, as it were to a wed∣ding,
asked what hope it was that
drew & led them to it: and when it
was answered they hoped for those
goods which the eye hath not seen,
nor eare heard, nor hath ascended into the
hart of man, he was so mooued and
changed therewith, that presently
he gaue vp his name to be put into
the list, and vnder Maximian most
stoutly and valiantly suffred Martyr∣dome.
So much the hope of beati∣tude
could worke.
3. Point. See how immense and
powerful is the diuine loue of
IESVS, which through grace at last
leads a man vnto the vision it-self,
of the diuine effence, wherewith
euen God himself is blessed. Then
thinke what thou oughtst to yeald
to recompence this loue againe: no