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in the rewarde of sufferinge / then it is that we do heere suffer in the affliction it self / [[Rom. 8.]] saying: for I suppose that the afflictions of this lyfe / are not worthie of the glorie which shal be shewed vpon vs. Who is it then that will not labor with all his poure to come vnto so greate an excellencie / that he may become the frend of Godd / and forthwith ioye with Christ? that after famin and banishement or tormentes and punishementes / which are but earthely / he may attayn vnto heauenly rewardes? Yf it be a glorius thinge for worldly souldiours to returne in to ther countrie triumphing after they haue vanquished their enemie / how mutch more worthi a thing is it for vs / after our fleshe the world and deuell beinge ouercomme / to go again with triumphe into paradise? And to offer vnto Godd a gifte most acceptable / faith incorrupte / the sownd vertue of mynd / and sincere confession of faithe / a notable praise of deuotion. To comme in his companye when he commith to take vengeaunce of his enemies / To stond by his syde when he shall sytte down to iudge / to be made the felow heire of Christe / to be made equall with the angels / to reioyce in the possession of the heauenly kingdom with the patriarches / with thapostles / with the prophetes / and all confessours and martirs. What persequution can vanquishe theis thoughtes / which are not uain / but of force / and of poure / in the holy ghoste? what tormentes can ouercome them? The mynd ons grownded in theis godly meditacions doth endure stronge and stable / and that mynd abydeth immutable against all the terrors of the deuell / and the threttes of the world / and of Antichriste / that mynd I say which the certayn and sure faith of thinges to come doth strenghthen. The eyes be shutt vpp in theis persequutions of the earthe / but heauen is open. Antichriste threatneth / but the lord Christe defendith. The world is taken from him that is killed / but paradise is gyuen to him being therunto restored. Temporall lyfe is taken awaye / but the euerlastinge lyfe is repayred. What a dignitie (o brethern) is it / how great a safetie / for a man to depart myrily from hens / to depart so through oppressions and trobles? It is a glorius thinge to shutt vpp the eyes in a moment / with which men and the world wer seene / and forthewith to open the same to se Godd and Christe. But that we maye behold theis thinges in mynde and thought / that we may (I saye) nig
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