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How to aduise and com∣fort them that lye in prison, and be by the Magistrate iudg∣ged to dye.
FIrste welbeloued, Al∣mightie God giue you his grace, and true pati∣ence, whereby you may beare and patiently suf∣fer this your deserued crosse layde vpon you, séeing the matter is come thus far with you, yt Gods iudg∣ment and the punishment of the magi∣strate is falne vpon you, yeald your self willingly therevnto, and thinke that this correction commeth from God him selfe. Therefore refuse not the correc∣tion of the Almightie, as it is written in Iob the 5.* 1.1 Séeing then that euery mans iudgement commeth from God our Lord, as it is in Solomon, the 29. of his Prouerbes,* 1.2 receiue such iudgement and punishment vp from our Lord God as a fatherly correction, as the Epistle