[ 434] The wonderful love of a true Christian to Christ Iesus.
IT was a true Christian-like speech of St. Ierome; If my Father should stand before me,* 1.1 my Mother should hang upon me, my Brethren should press about me, I would break through my Brethren, throw down my Mother, tread under feet my Father, that I might the faster cleave unto Christ Iesus my Saviour: O the surpassing love to Christ, that is in a true Disciple of Christ; let money perish, and friends fail, the World frown,* 1.2 yea life it self vanish, Christ is better then them all; If Christ should say to him,* 1.3 Take thy fill of sinful delights, eat, drink and be merry, solace thy self in the midst of all thy abundance, thou shalt not perish, onely thou shalt not be with me; Not with thee Lord Iesus, where then? then farewel del••ghts, farewel pomp and plenty, farewel all; I will follow thee whither soever thou goest, for it will certainly be Hell where thou art not.