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ye might remember the I tolde you Let no mā therfore maruel that we are exceadingly trobled with cōtinual ꝑsecutiōs oftētymes vexed with paineful trobles seing that the Lord tolde aforehāde the these should happen in the last daies which the doctrine exhortation of his worde instructed prepared our fight warrefare Peter also his apostle taught that persecutions do therfore happen that we maye betried and that we thorowe deathe and sufferinges myght also be ioyned and knitte to the loue of God after thensample of the iuste men that went before vs For in his epistle he wryteth thus sayeng Dearely beloued wonder not at this heate that is happened vnto you 1. Pet. 4. which is come among you to trie you Neither fall ye awaye as thoughe a newe thing had chaunced vnto you but as ofte as ye are partakers of Christes passions reioyce in althinges that when his glorye appeareth ye may also be mery and gladde yf ye be rayled vpon for the name of Christ happie are ye For the name of the maiestye and power of God dothe reste in you Which verely is blasphemed of them but is glorifyed of you Thapostles haue also taught vs suche thinges as they thēselues did learne of the Lordes preceptes and heauenly commaundementes the Lorde hymselfe strenghtning vs and sayeng Luce. 18. Math. 1● Ther is no mā sayeth he that leaueth house or felde other father and mother other betherne or susters other wife or children for the kingdome of goddes sake which shall not receiue seuen tymes as muche in this world and in the world to cum life euerlasting And againe blessed shal ye be saith he when men shal hate you and shal excommunicate and bānishe you Mat. 5. and shall curse your name as wicked for the sonne of mans sake reioyce and be gladde in that daie for your rewarde is great in heauen The Lorde wold haue vs to be mery and ioyeful in persecutions For in the tyme of persecution the crownes of faithe are distributed and geuen than are Goddes sowldears tried Than do heauēs open vnto the martyrs For we haue not after suche maner professed souldearfare that we should thinke vpon peace only and should refuse and forsake the fight Forasmuche as the Lord the mastre of humilite patience and sufferaunce hathe himselfe walked in the selfe same souldearfare the he might first do that thing himselfe which he taught to be obserued of others and might himselfe first suffer for vs that which he exhorted vs to suffer Set allwaies before your eies dearely beloued that he which alone hathe receiued al iugement of the father whichshal com to iuge all mē hathe euennow aforehand pronounced the sentence of his Ingement and knowlage to come Math. 10 shewing aforehād witnessing the he will confesse thē before his father that cōfesse him will denye thē the denye him Yf we might auoide escape death No man can escape death we might iustely feare to die but seing that of necessite the mortall must die let vs embrace thoccasion which God by his promise hathe vouchesaued to offer vs And let vs so ende our life that we maye receiue the rewarde of immortalite Neither let vs be afraide to be slaine seing yt ys manifest that we are then crowned when we are slaine and killed Neither let any mā most dearely beloued brethren betrobled Flight for feare of persecutiō whan he shall se our people driuen awaie scatered thorowe the feare of persecutyon and shall not see the brotherhede gathered together nor heare the bishoppes preache and declare the scriptures S. Cipriane vseth this worde brother heads We vnto whom it is not lauful to kill but must of necessite be killed can not than be al gathered together Whersoeuer any of the brethren shall in those dayes be for a season seperate from the flocke in body and not in spirite thorow the necessitie of the tyme let him not be troubled thorowe the terriblenesse of that fleing neither let him be afrayd when he departeth to hyde himselfe in the wilsome wildernes For he is not alone which hathe Christ to his companion in fleing He is not alone which keping the temple of God is not without God whersoeuer he shall happen to be And yf the these and murtherer shal destroye the as thou arte fleyng into the wildernes and mountaynes yf the wilde best shall assaile the yf hunger thurst or colde shall pinche the or yf the tempest or storme shall drowne the when thou doest by see hastely flee awaye Christ abydeth and loketh for his soul dear whersoeuer he fyghteth And he geueth vnto him that dyeth for the honour of his name in the tyme of persecution that rewarde A comfort for suche as are preuely pined murdered in presons which he hath promised to gyue in the resurrection Neither is the glory of martirdome any whit the lesse thoughe a man dye not openly amōg many when Christ his cause was thoccasion of his death For he is a sufficient witnesse of his martirdome that tryeth martirs and crowneth them Abel Let vs most dearely beloued brethren folowe the ryghtful Abel which beganne and consecrated martirdomes when he was the first that was slayne for ryghtfulnes sake Let vs folowe Abraham the frende of God Abraham which delaied not to offer vp his sonne in sacrifice with his owne handes when thorowe a deuouce fayth he obeyed God Let vs folowe the thre children Ananias Azarias and Misahel which being nether feared thorow their tender age nor discorraged thorow captiuitie whē Iury Ierusalē were ouercome takē ouercame by the power of faythe the kyng in his owne kingdome Which beyng commaunded to worship the ymage that Nabuchodonosor hade made ouercame bothe the kynges threatninges and the flamyng fyre Crieng out and testefieng their faith which these wordes Dani. 3. We haue no nede O king Nabuchodonosor to make the any aunswer touching this mater For ther is a God whome we serue able to delyuer vs from the fornace of the burnyng fire and he shall delyuer vs O king from thy handes but if he do not let it be knowen vnto the the we will not serue thy goddes neither wil we worshippe the golden ymage which thou hast set vp They beleaued that thorowe faith they might escape neuertheles they added but if he do not that the king might be certefied that they war also able to die for Goddes sake whome they worshipped For this is the power of faithe and vertue to beleaue and knowe that God is able to deliuer frō present deathe yet neither to feare nor giue place to deathe that faithe maie be tried the better Out of theyr mouth brake furth the vndefiled in uincible strenght of the holy goost the the wordes which the Lord spake in his gospel might appeare to be true whā they shall laie hādes on you saithe he be not carefull what ye shall speake

And many false prophetes shal arise and deceiue many and bicause of the abundaunce of wickednes the charite of many shall ware cold but he the shall endure vnto th ende the same shal be saffe And this gladde tydinges of the kingdome shall be preached thorowe all the worlde for a witnesse vnto all nacyons and than shall the ende come Whā therfore ye shall see thabo minacion of desolatyon spoken of by Daniel the prophet standing in the holy place Daniel 9. let him that reade it vnderstande it Than let them that be in Iury flee in to the mountaines And him which is on the house toppe not com downe to fet any thing out of his house Neither let him which is in the felde returne backe to fetche his clothes Wo be in those daies to women with childe and to them that geue sucke but praie ye that your flight be not in the winter neither on the saboth daie For than shall be great tribulacion suche as was not from the beginning of the world to thys tyme nor shal be And excepte those dayes should be shortned ther should no flesh be saued but for the chosen sake those dayes shall be shortned Then yf any man shall saye vnto you Lo here is Christ or ther is Christ beleue it not For ther shall aryse false Christes and false prophetes and shal do great miracles and wonders In somuche that yf it were possible euē the chosen persons should be deceyued But take you hede loo I haue tolde you all thynges before Wherfore yf they shal saye vnto you behold he is in the wyldernes go not forthe Beholde in the serrete places beleue not For as the lyghtning commeth out of the east and syneth into the west So shall the cōming of the sone of mā be For whersoeuer a deade carcase is thether wil the Egles be gathered together Forthwith after the tribulatiōs of those dayes the sune shall be darkened and the Wone shall not geue her lyght the starres shall fall from heauen and the powers of heauen shall moue And then shall appeare the signe of the Sonne of man in heauen And then shall al the kinreddes of the earthe lament them selues and they shall se the sonne of man commyng in the cloudes wyth great power and glory And he shall sende his Angels with great power glory with a great trompet And they shall gather together his chosen frō the iiij wyndes frō the one ende of heauen to the other Neither are these thinges which nowe happē to christeans new or sodeine for asmuche as good iust mē such as be thorowly bent to kepe the lawe of God are afraid to staine the innocency of lyfe true religion do alwayes walke the harde straite waye thorowe trobles iniuries and thorowe the greuous manifolde punishementes of deadly malicious emnities Thus is the ryghtfull Abel first killed of his brother Gen. 4. in the very beginning of the worlde 1. Reg. 14. Iacob is copelled to flye 3. Reg. 19. Ioseph is solde king Saul persecuteth the merciful Dauid king Achab endeuoureth to oppresse Helias which did constantly manfully defende the maiestie of God ʒa charias the priest is killed betwene the temple the aulter Math. 23. that he myght there be made a sacrifice him selfe where he had offred sacrifices To be shorte ther are very many martirdomes of the rightfull which are oftentymes celebrate Ther are very many ensamples of faithe godlines left for them that shal come after The .iii. children Ananias Ararias Misahel in age equal in loue of one mynde in faithe stabell in godlynes constaunt and stronger then the flāmyng fire and the paynes wherwith they were tormented openly proclaymed that they serued God alone and only that they knewe hym alone Dani 3. that they worshipped him alone saieng O king Na buchodonosor we haue no nede to make the any answer in this mater For God whome we serue is able to deliuer vs frō the hote burning ouen O king and to ridde vs out of thy handes but yf he will not yet shalt thou knowe that we wil not serue thy goddes nor do reuerēce to the ymage which thou hast set vp Dani. 14. And the godlye man Daniel full of the holy Goost cryeth out sayeth I worship nothing but only my Lorde which hath made heauen earth Tobias also althoughe he was vnder a kingly tyrānous bōdage yet being fre in vnderstāding spirite cōfesseth God do excellētly cōmēd god his power and maiestie saieng Tobi. 13. I wil praise him in the lande of my captiuitie wil shewe his power amōges the sinful nacion But what should I speake of the seuē brethrē in the Machabees whiche do fulfill the nūbre of .vii. for a sacrament of absolute ꝑfectnes 2. Mat. 7. These seuen brethren are so lincked together in martirdome as in the disposicion ordinaūce of God the first seuē dayes do couteyne seuen thousande yeres As the seuen spirites and seuen Angels ar assistant and present before the face of the Lord And the seuen fashoned cādelstickes in the tabernacle of witnesse And the seuen golden candelstickes in the reuelacion And the seuē pillars in Salomon vpō whome wisdome doeth builde her howse Euen so the number also ther of seuen brethren doeth comprehēde in them the number of seuen churches According as we reade in the first boke of kinges that the barrē brought furthe seuen And in Esay seuen womē take holde vpō one mā after whose name they require to benamed And Paule thapostle being myndefull of this laufull and certaine number writeth vnto seuen churches And in the reuelation the Lord doeth directe his diuine commaundementes and heuenly preceptes to seuē churches and their angels The which nēber is now foūde in these brethren that laufull perfeccyon might be fulfilled With the seuen sonnes the mother also their beginning and rote is certeinly copled which afterwardes brought furthe seuen churches herselfe being thorowe goddes voice first and alone foūded vpon the rocke Neither is which out mistery the in the martyrdomes the mother is founde alone with her sōnes For the martyrs which in their sufferinges did testefie them selues to be the sonnes of God ar now cownted to haue none other father but God As the Lorde in the gospel teacheth sayeng call no man your father vpon the earth Math. 23. for ther is but one your father which is in heauen O how glorious confessions did they make Howe noble howe excellent lessons of faithe haue they geuē The king Antiochus being angery yea rather Antichrist re presented by Antiochus went about to defile with the filth of swines fleshe the gloriouse mouthes of the martyrs which thorowe the spirite of cōfession war inuincible And when he had greuously beaten them with scorges and yet neuer the neare his purpose he commaunded the frieng pannes or cauldrons to

What they gaine that denye God and runnyng into the daunger of eternall punishement to gaine the short momentes of this lyfe And he beyng ther long tormented nowe at the point of death sighed and sayd as he dyed amōg stripes and tormentes O Lorde which hast the holy knowlege thou knowest openly that where as I myght be delyuered from deathe I suffer these sore paynes of my body but in my mynde I am wel content to suffer them because I fear thee Certeinly his fayth was sincere true his godlynes perfecte pure ynoughe which consydered not the kyng Antiochꝰ but God that is Iuge and knewe ryght well that it shoulde nothyng profyte him to saluacion yf he should mocke and deceyue man seyng the God which is the iuge of our conscience ought only to be feared cā not be mocked nor deceyued by any meanes Yf therfore we do lyue as godly mē and suche as be dedicate vn to God yf we do walke in the selfe same auncient and holy fote steppes of the iuste Let vs go thorowe the same ensamples of paynes sufferinges thorowe the same martirdomes and passions And let vs reken the glorye of our tyme in this point more excellent that wher as the olde ensamples of martirs are numbred Now after the plenteouse abundaunce of godlines and faithe the christian martyrs can not be numbred As Iohan witnesseth in the reuelacion saieng Apo. 7. After this I behelde a great multytude which no man could number of al nacyons kinredes people and tonges standing before the seate and before the lambe and they war clothed with long white garmentes and they had palmes in their handes and cried which a loude voice saieng Health vnto our God sitting vpon the seate and vnto the lambe And one of thelders answered saieng vnto me what are these which are arayed in long white garmentes and whence came they and I saied vnto him Lord thou wotest And he saied vnto me These are they which came out of great trybulacion they haue wasshed their garments and made them white in the blodde of the lambe Therfore are they in the p̄sence of the seate of God serue him daye night in his tēple But if it be shewed prowed that the people of the christiā martyrs are so many no mā should thinke it an hard thing to be a martyr seing he may ꝑceiue the the multitude of martyrs cā not be numbred The .xij. chaptre VVhat hope rewarde abideth for the iuste and martyrs after the fight and passions of this life the holy gost hathe shewed and folde aforhand by Salomō saing And thoughe they suffer tormentes before men Sapi. 3. yet is their hope full of Immortalite And although they be punished in fewe thinges yet in many thinges shal they be well rewarded For God hathe proued them and founde them mete for him selfe Yea as the gold in the fornace he doeth trie them and receiueth them as a burnte offering and whan the tyme cōmeth they shal be loked vpon They shal Iuge the nacions and haue dominion ouer the people and their Lord shal reigne for euer In likemaner the same Salamō doeth describe the vengaunce the God shall take for our cause and setteth forthe the penaunce or sorowe of our persecutours and enemyes saieng Then shall the righteouse stande in great stedfastnesse against suche as haue dealt extremely with them Sapi. 5. The late repentaūce of them that be in hell and taken awaye their labours When they se it they shal be vexed with horrible feare and shal wonder at the hastines of the sodayne healthe groning for very distres of mynde and shal say within them selues hauyng inwarde sorowes and mournyng for very anguishe of mynde These are they whō we somtyme had in derision and iesced vpon We fooles thought their life very madnes and their ende to be with out honour Howe then are they coūted among the childrē of God their porcion among the saintes Therfore we haue erred frō the waye of truthe and the lyght of ryghtfulnes hath not shyned ouer vs and the Sunne of vnderstanding rose not vp vpon vs. We haue weried our selues in the waye of wyckednes and destruction Tediouse wayes haue we gone but the waye of the Lorde we haue not knowen What good hathe our pryde done vnto vs Or what ꝓfite hath the pompe of ryches brought vs all those thinges are passed awaye like a shadowe In likemaner in 115. psalme the rewarde of martyrdome is declared Psal 115. wheare he saieth preciouse is the deathe of his saintes in the sight of the Lord. Psal 125. Likewise also in 125. is expressed bothe our sorowfull affliction and also our ioyeful rewarde wher he saieth They that sowe in teares shal reape which ioye They went furthe wandering and sowing their seades with weping But they shal com againe with ioye takig vp their lappes And againe in the 118. psalme he saieth blessed are those that be vndefiled in the waie Psal 118. which walke in the lawe of the Lord Blessed are those that searche out his witnesses and seke him with their hole hart Fur thermore the Lord which is the selfe reuengar of our persecucion and the rewarder of our sufferinge saieth in the gospell happye shall they be which shall suffer persecutyon for rightousnes sake Math. 5. bicause the kingdome of heauen is theirs And againe he saieth blessed shall ye be whan mē shall hate you and shall seperate and throwe you out and shal curse your name as wicked for the sonne of mans sake be gladde in that daie and reioyce For lo your rewarde is great in heauen And agayne he that loseth his liffe for me shall saue it Neither are the rewardes of Goddes promise laid vp only for suche as be tormented and sayne For although the faithful be not subiecte to the very suffering yet if faithe abide perfecre not ouercome if the thristian despising and forsaking all thinges that at his owne shall shewe him self to folow Christ he also is honored of Christ among the martyrs by his owne promise wher he saieth ther is no mā that forsaketh house or fielde or father and mother or brethren or wiffe or sonnes for the kingdome of God which do not receiue seuen tymes as muche in this world and in the world to come eternal liffe In likemaner in the reuelacion he speaketh the same thing saiēg Apo. ●0 and I sawe the sowles of them that wer killed for the name of Iesu the worde of God And whan he had made mencyon first of them that war slayne he added saieng who so euer haue not worshipped the Image of the best neither receiued his marke vpō their forhedes or on their handes Al which being sen of him at once in one place he coppleth together sayeng And they liued and reigned with Christ He sayeth that they all do lyue and reigne with Christ not only they

that were slayne but all suche also as standing manfully in the stedfastnesse of their faythe and in the feare of God haue not worshipped the ymage of the beast neither haue consented vnto them in their haynous and cruell proclamacions lawes That we shall receyue more in rewarde of our suffeting thā are the paynes and afflictions whiche we nowe endure the blessed Apostle Paule dothe proue which beyng thorowe goddes fauour taken vp into the thirde heauen into paradise 2. Cor. 12. witnesseth that he herde wordes that can not be vttered which glorieth that he had thorowe secrete faythe sene Iesus Christ which hauyng certeine knowlege of the truth professeth that which he had bothe learned seen sayeng The afflictiōs of this lyfe are not worthy that glorye which shal be shewed vpon vs. Rous. 8. Who is it nowe that will not labour with all his strenght to attayne so great glory that he maye be made the frende of God and immediatly reioyce with Christ That after these worldly tormentes and paynes he may come to the diuine and heauēly rewardes Yf the souldears of this worlde thinke it a glorious matter after they haue oucrcome thennemy to returne into their coūtrey with triumphe howe muche more noble and excellent a thing is it after we haue ouercome the deuel to returne into paradise triumphing And he beyng subdued which before deceyued to beare with vs the tokens of victorye into that place from the which fynful Adam was cast out To offer vnto God a most acceptable sacerfice that is an vndefiled faythe the sounde vertue of the mynde the bright prayse of godlines To folowe him A descripcion of the glori of eternall liffe whē he shal come to take vengeaunce of his eunemyes To syt on his syde when he shall syt to iuge To be made an heire an nexed with Christ To be made equall vnto the Angels To reiuyse together with the patriarkes Apostles and prophetes in the possession of the heauenly kyngdome What perfecucion can ouercome what tormentes can ouerthrowe these cogitacions and thoughtes The mynde that is grownded vpon godly meditacions abideth strong stable And he whose hart is strenghtned with a certeine and sounde faithe of thinges to come standeth immoueable against al the terrors of the deuell and threatninges of the worlde The eyes ar shutte vp in the persecutions of the world neuertheles heauē is opened Antichrist doeth threaten but yet the Lord Christ doeth defende deathe is brought in notwithstāding immortalite doeth folowe after The world is violētly pluct from him that is slayne Neuerthles paradise is geuen to him that is restored The temporall life is destroied but yet theternall is repaired O how great is the dignue how great is the saffety to departe hence Ioyfully to departe hence gloryously among afflictyons and tormentes In a moment to close vp theyes wherwith men and the world war seen and immediatly to open againe the same to beholde god and Christ O how swift is this departure to be conueied frō thearthe sodenly and to be situate and placed in the celestical heuēly kingdome These thinges ought to be considered in our hartes and myndes vpon these thinges ought we to study muse bothe night and daie yf the daie of the persecuting of Christ shall finde suche a sowldear the vertue which is redy for the rewarde can not be ouer come Or if he shal be preuented called hence before the faithe which was redy vnto martyrdome shall not be wtout rewarde Rewarde is geuē God being iudge wtout hinderance of tyme. In ꝑsecution the sowldearfare in peace the cōsciēce is crowned God being iuge Amen Th ende of thebofe of exhortacion to marurdome Th argument of the Epistle folowing By this Epistle S. Cipriane exhorteth the people that dwelt at Thibaris to fepe and endure in the cōfessiō of Christ with a pure mynde perfit fayth and Godlye deuocion Cipriā vnto the people of Thibaris c. THad decreed and was fully purposed most dearely beloued brethren yf the state of thynges cōuenient tyme wolde haue geuen lyberty to haue come my selfe vnto you according as you haue oftē desyred beyng present to haue ther strenghtned the brotherhed with our exhortacion to the vtter most of our power The Image of a true bishope But forasmuche as thorough vrgent great busynes we are thus wtholden letted that we haue no lybertye to go farre frō hence to be long absent from the people which thorowe goddes mercy is cōmitted to our gouernemēt I haue in the meane tyme sent you these letters in my stede and rowme For it is our deutye seyng the Lorde dothe vouche saue often tymes to pricke vs forewarde to admonish vs to extende forth the care of our instruction warning vnto your cōscience also For ye ought to knowe for a certeintie to beleue holde that the day of troble beginneth to houer ouer ouer heades that th ende of the world the tyme of Antichrist draweth neare that we al may stande ready to the bat taile 1. Ioan. 2. that we thinke vpon nothing but only of the glory of eteruall lyfe the crowne the shal be geuē to thē the cōfesse the Lorde Neither let vs thinke that the thinges cōming are suche as ar alredy passed A more daūgerus crueller fight houereth now ouer vs vnto the which Christ his souldiers ought to prepare thēselues with an vncorrupted faith strong vertue the laye people dranke the cuppe of Christes bloode in Cipriaenes tyme 〈…〉 Tō sidering the they do therfore daily drinke the cup of the blodde of Christ the they maye also shede their blodde for Christ his sake For this is to desire to be foūde wyth Christ to folowe the which Christ bothe taught and dyd according to the sayeng of Iohn̄ thapostle he that sayeth the he abydeth in Christe ought also to walk after the same maner the he walked In like maner exhorteth teacheth the blessed apostle Paule saieng Rom. 8. we ar the sōnes of God but it we be sōnes than are we also heires the heires I meane of God and heires annexed with Christ yf we suffer together with him that we may be also glorified together with him Al these thinges ought to be cōsidered of vs at this presēt that no mā should desire any thing of the worlde which is now in dyeng but might folowe Christ which bothe liueth him selfe euerlastingly also maketh aliue his seruauntes that abide in the faithe of his name For the tyme is come most dearely beloued brethren which our Lord long sins warned vs of tolde vs aforehand that it wold com saieng The howre shall com Ioan. 16. that whosoeuer shall kill you will thinke the he doeth God seruice But these thiges wil they do bicause they haue not knowen the father neither yet me These thinges haue tolde you that whan the howre of them is come