By fayth Moses when he was great, refused to be called the son of Pharaos daugh∣ter, and chose rather to suffre aduersite wyth the people of god then to enioye the pleasu∣res of synne for a season, and estemed the rebuke of Christe greater riches then y• treasures of Egypt. For he had respecte vnto the rewarde.
Howebeit the parentes of Moyses deserued to haue the prayse hereof, lyke as this was his owne propre commendation, that after he was shotte vp to∣wardes mannes state, and chosen of Pharaos dawghter to be her sonne, he re∣fused the honourable kynred of the bloud Royal, hauyng leuer to confesse him selfe to be an Hebrue borne, & so to suffre cōmon persecution with the people of God, then by wycked disimulation to enioye the commodities and pleasures of thys worlde, reckenynge it to be muche happier riches then all the Egiptians treasures, at that tyme to suffre the rebukes of aduersities for the preseruation of the people, therby to fygure Christ, who in tyme to come should suffre grea∣ter euels for the sauetie of his nation. Fynallye he contemned that he myghte haue had, and was sure of, and with the eyes of fayth regarded those thynges onely whiche are farre from the senses, puttyng his affyaunce in God, who suf∣freth not the vertue and goodnes of mā, to be disapointed of worthy rewardes.