Heb. x. Wisd. iii. Psal. xci. Matt. v. Mark x. John xii. John xvi. Rom. viii. 2 Cor. iv. part he is glorified. See that none of you be punished as a murderer, or as a thief, or an evil-doer, or as a busy-body in other men's matters. If any man suffer as a christian man, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf. For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God. If it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them which believe not the gospel of God? And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinful appear? Wherefore let them that are troubled according to the will of God commit their souls to him with welldoing, as unto a faithful Creator." "Ye took in worth the spoiling of your goods, and that with gladness, knowing in yourselves how that ye have in heaven a better and enduring substance. Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath a great recompence of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a very little while; and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. But the just shall live by faith. And if he withdraw himself, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. It is not we that withdraw ourselves unto damnation; but we pertain unto faith, to the winning of the soul." That pleasures and joys, yea, and those true, sound, perfect, and everlasting, follow the cross. Probations out of the holy scripture. "The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God; and the pain of death shall not touch them. In the sight of the unwise they appeared to die; and their end is taken for very destruction. The way of the righteous is judged to be utter destruction; but they are in rest. And though they suffer pain before men, yet is their hope full of immortality. They are punished but in few things; nevertheless in many things shall they be well rewarded. For God proveth them, and findeth them meet for himself: yea, as the gold in the furnace doth he try them, and receiveth them as a brent-offering; and when the time cometh, they shall be looked upon," &c. "I am with him in trouble: I will deliver him, and bring him to honour. With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation." "Blessed are they which suffer persecution for righteousness' sake: theirs is the kingdom of heaven." "Blessed are ye when men revile you, and persecute you, and shall falsely say all manner of evil sayings against you for my sake. Rejoice and be glad; for great is your reward in heaven. For so persecuted they the prophets, which were before you." 66 Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath forsaken house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake and the gospel's, but he shall receive an hundred-fold now in this life, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the world to come eternal life." "He that loveth his life shall destroy it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life everlasting." "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye shall weep and lament; but contrariwise the world shall rejoice. Ye shall sorrow; but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. A woman when she travaileth hath sorrow, because her hour is come. But as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. And ye now therefore have sorrow; but I will see you again; and your hearts shall rejoice; and your joy shall no man take from you." "I suppose that the afflictions of this life are not worthy of the glory which shall be shewed upon us." "Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our tribulation, which is short and light, prepareth an exceeding and an eternal weight of glory unto us; while the things which are not seen. we look not on the things which are seen, but on For the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. For we know that if our earthy mansion 2 Cor. v. of this dwelling were destroyed, we have a building of God, an habitation not made with hands, but eternal in heaven. For therefore sigh we, desiring to be clothed with our mansion which is from heaven; so yet, if that we be found clothed, and not naked. For we that are in this tabernacle sigh and are grieved, because we would not be unclothed, but would be clothed upon; that mortality might be swallowed up of life." "It is a true saying, If we be dead with Christ, we shall also live with him. 2 Tim. ii. If we suffer with him, we shall also reign with him. But if we deny him, he will deny us also. If we believe not, yet abideth he faithful: he cannot deny himself." "Blessed is the man that suffereth temptation; for when he is tried he shall James i. receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him." "Behold, we count them happy which endure." James v. "It is thankworthy if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, and suffer 1 Pet. ii. wrong undeserved. For what praise is it if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye take it patiently? But and if, when ye do well, ye suffer wrong, and take it patiently, then is there thank with God." "Happy are ye if any trouble happen unto you for righteousness' sake. Be not 1 Pet. iii. ye afraid for any terror of them, neither be ye troubled; but sanctify the Lord God your hearts." in “Dearly beloved, marvel not that ye are proved by fire (which thing is to try 1 Pet. iv. you), as though some strange thing happened unto you; but rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's passions; that, when his glory appeareth, ye may be merry and glad. If ye be railed upon for the name of Christ, happy are ye. For the glory and the Spirit of God resteth upon you." "See that none of you be punished as a murderer, or as a thief, or an evil-doer, or as a busy-body in other men's But if any man suffer as a christian man, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this behalf. For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God. If it first begin with us, what shall the end be of them which believe not the gospel of God? And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? Wherefore let them that are troubled according to the will of God commit their souls unto him with well-doing, as unto a faithful Creator." matters. "No manner chastising for the present time seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: Heb. xii. nevertheless, afterward it bringeth the quiet fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby." "I saw under the altar the souls of them that were killed for the word of God, Rev. vi. and for the testimony which they had; and they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long tarriest thou, Lord, holy and true, to judge and to avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? And long white garments were given unto every one of them. And it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until the number of their fellows and brethren, and of them that should be killed as they, were fulfilled." “One of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed Rev. vii. in long white garments ? and whence came they ? And I said unto him, Lord, thou wottest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and made their garments large, and made them white by the blood of the Lamb: therefore are they in the presence of the seat of God, and serve him day and night in his temple; and he that sitteth in the seat will dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst; neither shall the sun light on them, neither any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the seat shall feed them, and shall lead them unto fountains of living water; and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." "I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which Rev. xiv. Rev. xx. die in the Lord. Even so, saith the Spirit, that they rest from their labours. But their works follow them." "I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesu, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had taken his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years, &c. On such shall the second death have no power; but they shall be the priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years." Give the glory to God alone. A Comparison betwene the Lordes Sup per, and the Popes Masse: newly made, and now first of al Ieremy. 2. Be astonished (O ye heauens) be afrayd and abashed at such a thing, sayth the Lord. For my people hath done tvvo euilles. They hane forsaken me, the vvell of the vvater of lyfe, and dygged them pittes, yea vile and broken pittes, that can holde no vvater. 1. Cor. 10. I vvould not, that ye should haue felovvship vvith deuils. Ye can not drynke of the cuppe of the Lord, and of the cuppe of deuils. Ye can not be partakers of the Lordes table, and of the table of deuils. De Missa apud Anglos per Euangelium iam e medio sublata. Missa, malum, peius quo secula nulla tulerunt, Missa, inquam, inuiso nomine nota satis, Quæ uisa est orbis secum tractura ruinam, Nullus honos, nullæ exequiæ, nullumq: sepulchrum: Nam superest eius nil nisi nomen iners. Aurea iam redeunt veteris primordia mundi : Nam capite extincto, crimina cuncta ruunt. Matth. 15. Omnis plantatio, quam non plantauit Pater meus cælestis, eradicabitur. |