And yet more in Epist. 24.
Quid gloriosius aut felicius vlli hominum poterit ex di∣uina dignatione contingere, quàm inter ipsos carnifices in∣territum confiteri Dominum Deum? quàm inter saeuientia saecularis potestatis tormenta, etiam extorto & excruciato, & excarnificato corpore, Christum De•• filium, ersi receden∣te, sed ••amen libero spiritu confiteri? quàm relicto mundo caelum petisse? quàm desertis hominibus, inter Angelos sta∣re? quàm collegam passioniscum Christo, in Christi nomi∣ne factum esse? What can happen vnto any man, through Gods diu••ne bountifulnesse, more glorious, or more prosperous, then without all feare to confesse our Lord God? then amidst the cruell torments of secular power, to confesse Christ the Sonne of God, with a free spirit, though now departing from the body, yea from the body tortured, tormented, and all to bemangled? then by leaning the vvorld, to goe to heanen? then by for saking the company of men, to be conuersant with Angells? and bee made partaker of the Passion of Christ, in Christ his Name?