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SEcondly, for instructi∣on, if it bee a dutie re∣quired of all Christians to contend thus earnestly for their Faith, then from hence we may receive full satisfaction, concerning the counsels and, re∣solutions of Martyrs and Confessors, both of ancient and later times, in suffering things grievous
to be borne in all kindes; losse of goods, friends, credit, libertie, life, and all; in the cause and ser∣vice of this their Faith, many may please them∣selves with conceits of folly and unadvisednesse in such men, as it was a speech full of unsavorie prophanesse: that the Martyrs who suffered in the dayes of Queene Mary dyed like fooles; whereas indeed it is a point of the greatest wis∣dome in the world to doe what God hath comman∣ded; and the harder any commandement is, and the more contrariety it hath to flesh and bloud, so much the greater wise∣dome
it is to obey.