Active Christians, the onely Christians. [ 1034]
EPhorus,* 1.1 an ancient Historian, and Scholler to Isocrates, had no remarkable thing to write of his Country, and yet was willing to insert the name of it in his History, and therefore brings it in with a cold Parenthesis: Athens did this famous thing, and Sparta did that;* 1.2 And at that time my Conntry-men the Cu∣mins did nothing: God forbid, that England and English-men should be so recorded in Ecclesiasticall story, as to have their names put in with a blank;* 1.3 Such a Church did thus nobly, and such a People suffered thus pittifully, and at that time the Men of England did just nothing: to be more particular, such a Man did so much, and such a Man gave so much for the glory of Christ,* 1.4 and succour of poor Christians; and at that time thou didst nothing, thou gavest nothing; Thou professest thy selfe to be a Christian, be an active Christian: There be not onely walls upon Earth, but a Book in Heaven wherein the names of Christian Benefactors are written, let it be thy care of find thy name there, otherwise it will be no more honour for thee to be put into the Chronicle, than it was for Pontius Pilate to have his name men∣tioned in the Creed.