XXXI.
The elect being thus assured of their adoption and iustification, are indued with hope:* 1.1 a 1.2by which they looke patiently for the accomplishing of all good things which God hath begun in them. And therefore they can vndergoe all crosses and afflictions with a quiet and contented minde: because they know that the time will come when they shall haue full redemption from all euills. This was b 1.3 the patience of Pauls hope, when he saide, that nothing in the world could seuer him from the loue of God in Christ. And like to this was the pati∣ence of Policarpe, and of Ignatius, who when he was condemned and iudged to be throwne to wild beasts, and now heard the Lyons roring, he boldly and yet patiently said; I am the wheat of Christ, I shall be ground with the teeth of wild beasts, that I may be found good bread. Also the same was the patience of the blessed Martyr S. Laurence, who like a meeke lambe suffered himselfe to be tormented on a fierie gridyron: and when he had bin pressed downe with fire pikes for a great space, in the mightie spirit of God, spake vnto the Emperour that caused him thus to be tormented, on this wise:
This side is now rosted enough, turne vp, O tyrant great: Assay, whether rosted or rawe thou thinkest the better meate.