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IT is reported of an* 1.1 able Minist••r (now with God) that riding with an in∣timate Friend by Tyburn (which he had not know, or not observed before) demanded what that was, and answer being made; This is Tyburn, where many Malefactors have lost their lives;* 1.2 he stopped his horse, and uttered these words with great affection, O what a shame is it that so many thousands should die
here for the satisfaction of their ••usts, and so few be found willing to lay down their lives for Christ; Why should not we in a good cause, and upon a good call be ready to be hanged for Iesus Christ? it would be everlasting honour, and it is a thousand times bet∣ter to dye for Christ, to be hanged, to be burnt, then to dye in our beds: And most true it is, that it were every way more glorious to die for Christ then to live without him, such was the Christian temper of the blessed Apostle, that he was not onely willing to be bound,* 1.3 but to dye for the Lord Jesus. And after him those Primitive Christians, How ambitious were they of Martyrdome in the cause of Christ? And of late in the times of that Marian persecution, How many cheerfully,* 1.4 and willingly laid down their lives, mounting Eliah-like to Heaven in Fiery Charriots? And so must every good Christian be ready to do, to dye for Christ, willingly to endure the Crosse, and not to shrink back for any torment whatsoever.
M. Jerem. Whitake••.
Sim Ash Serm. at his Funera••, 1654.
A••t. 21. 13.
Joh. Fox Martyrology.