Blessed be God (the father of our Lorde Iesus Christe) whiche is the father of mercy and the God of all coumforte, whiche coumforteth vs in all oure tribulacion, insomuch y• we are hable to comfort thē which are in any maner of trouble, wt thesame comfort wher∣with we our selues are cōforted of God. For as the affliccions of Christe are plenteous in ••s, euen so is oure consolacion plenteous by Christe.
With all good and luckye woordes, blessed, magnified, and praysed bee God, the father of oure Lorde Iesus Christe, the very fountayne and autoure of all goodnes, no fearefull God to the righteous and godly, but one of whom all our comfort commeth, whiche ceaseth not to aide and comforte vs his mes∣sangers in all suche troubles, as maie any wayes befall vs, whiche he doothe not onely for our sakes, leste we myght happely through vehement persecucion fall from hym, but for your sakes also whiche as through oure troubles, for y• loue ye beare towarde vs, are in greate heauinesse, so are ye for oure reliefe, and ••easte, gladde and ioyfull: and by our exaumple in hope of goddes healpe man∣fully continue in suffreyng persecucion and troubles, standyng in a sure truste & confidence, that as god, which as ye se, aided and strengthned vs beyng oppres∣sed with miseries, and wellnygh deade, so wyll hein your troubles healpe and succour you, whose goodnes is suche, as wyll accordyng to oure temptacions measure his mercifull comfort. Nor loth we suche affliccions, as we suffre and endure, for Christes sake: and as Christe gaue exaumple, knowyng this, that y• more greuous tormentes he suffered, the more comforte and honoure is he in. And the greater tormentynges we lykewyse for his glory suffered and a bode, by his meane so muche more plentiouslye hath god relieued vs, being deliuered out of trouble, to the intent ye should lykewyse stande in hope and loke for that whiche ye see alreadye doone in vs.