desire to lyue euerlastingly haue neade to make a simple
cleare and playne confession / they see that Christes name must
be confessed / and that no man must communicate with
Antichriste / how great so euer daungers do hange ouer them /
and how gret so euer the aduauntages be which are offered vnto
them. They see that they must treade down the feare and desire
of the fleshe. The most holy Apostle of Christe writith of
Moses.

[[Heb. 11.]]

By faith Moses when he was greate / refused to be called the
sonne of Pharaos daughter / and chose rather to suffer
aduersitie with the people of Godd / then to enioye the
pleasures of synne for a ceason / and esteamed the rebuke of
Christ greater riches / then the treasures of Egypt. For he hadd
respect vnto the rewarde. Whos example (most goodely indeede)
that we may folowe / we must alwais haue before our eyes and (as
I iudge) we must neuer lett slypp out of our myndes thos most
holy most true and healthefull wordes of our lord Christe /
which I see neade often tymes to be repeated and inculcate:

[[Mat. 10.]]

Euery one that shall knowledge me before men / hym wyll I
knowledge also before my father which is in heauen. But
whosoeuer shall denie me before men / hym will I also denie
before my father which is in heauen.

[[Luc. 9.]]

For who so is ashamed of me and my wordes / of hym shall the
sonne of man be ashamed when he commith in his maiestie / and in
the maiestie of his father / and of the holy Aungels. And
therfor ther are in all places of the scripture most large
promises sett furthe to them which do fely confes Christe / and
deny Antichriste with a goode corage. Iohn in the boke of the
Reuelacion /

[[Apocal. 6.]]

I sawe (saithe he) the sowles of them which wer filled for the
name of Iesu and the word of God. And wher as in this furst
place he hadd writon / them which wer filled / he added.

[[Apoc. 13. 19. 20.]]

And as many as worshipped not the image of the beast / nor did
take the marcke in their foreheade / or in their hande / all
which / whom he did se in the very same place / he couplith
together and saythe. And they lyued and reigned with Christe. He
saith that they lyued and reigned with Christe / not only they
which were filled / but they which abiding in the constauntnes
and confession of true faithe / did not worshipp the image of
the beaste / nor receyued ony markes of it. The blessed Apostle
Paule doth proue that we do receyue more