Martyrs.
Grievous the persecution in this County, under John Christopherson the Bishop thereof. Such his Havock in burning poor Procestants in one year, that had he sat long in that See, and continued after that rate, there needed no Iron-mills to rarify the Woods of this County, which this BONNER junior would have done of himself.
I confess the Papists admire him as a most able and profound Divine, which mind∣eth me of an Epigran made by one, who, being a Suitor to a surly and scorn•…•…ull. Mistris, after he had largely praised her rare parts and Divine perfections, concluded,
She hath too much Divinity for me; Oh! that she had some more Humanity!
The same may this Diocess say of Christopherson, who, though carrying much of Christ in his Surname, did bear nothing of him in his Nature, no meekness, mild∣ness or mercy, being addicted wholly to cruelty and destruction, burning no fewer then ten in one fire in Lewes, and seventeen others at several Times in sundry Places.