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Whether wee bee troubled for your consolacion and health, (or whether wee bee comforted, •••• is for your comforte and saluacion) whiche saluacion sheweth her power in that ye fu••••re the∣same same afflicions, whiche we also suffre: or whether wee bee comforted for your consolacion and saluacion, our hope also is stedfast for you: in asmuch as we know how that as ye are partakers of the affliccions, so••••, all ye be partakers also of the consolacion.
Therefore whether wee bee troubled with aduersities, that doeth god to encourage you, and for vs so to be, is to your wealthe an expediente meane, that ye beeyng throughe our exaumple strengthned, may stoutly abyde euen the moste extreme violence, that maye bee laied vpon you, whose sufferaunce albeit ve paynfull, yet is it verye holsome: or els yf we be refreashed, so that the storme of persecucion be paste and alayed, euen this doth god also, intendyng by relie∣uyng vs to refreashe youre courages, leste ye myghte wyth sorowe and payne faynt and despayre, but rather vpon a remembraunce, how there is a chaunge from soro we to pleasure, ye myght likewyse bee hable to suffre suche troubles as wee dooe. And trewlye in greate hope are wee that ye wyll surelye dooe so, that ye maye bee also of our ioyes partakers hereafter, as ye are alreadye par∣takers of our affliccions: and as ye were heretofore sorye for our affliccions, so shoulde ye nowe reioyce of our deliueraunce, synce it is meete and conueniente that frendes and louers shoulde bee in lyke condicion of paynes and pleasures.