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pable of that benevolence, and whose sore burning
eyes could not endure the beauty and shine os his
illuftrious virtues. For this indeed is now by sad ex-
perience found to be that, which chiessy exposed him
to all their undefatigable malice and fury i this led
him to the Tower, this brought him to the Scaffold ;
where he stil'i appeared more glorious than in his
throne, and laid down his life so like a Christian and
Bishop there,that they who took it away, could not
but relent at their own A and ashamed of their own
unreasonable fury, wished secretly it had never been
done ; for his golden Stars were not eclipsed nor dark-
ned, but refined by them. Then his bloody but sixed
erodes, they as naturally and significantly emblema*
tize both his cruel imprisonment, his unmerciful spoii
of his estate and goods, and (to perfect his Martyr-
dom) his Iosfe of lise : all which he bore with that
holy incomparable resolution and equanimity (as one
who was resolved not to lose his Crown in Heaven
though he lost all on earth) that now he hath gained
more by the barbarous rage of his enemies, than they
could do by their depriving, persecuting,or murdering
of him ; and yet thus much they gained by if,that like
hisgratious Master Jesus Christ, to whom he looked,
and whom he imitated, while they poured out his
blood, he poured out his prayers for them, that they
might repent and live and die as blessedly as himself.
And certainly, such prayers and blood had no little
vertue,no weak incense in them : for it is observed,
that ike St. Paul by the Protomartyr’s, many of his
molt bitter foes were softned by them, and he happily
extinguished those ssames of hatred by dyingglori-
oussy,which were unhappily kindled by living so.And
so now that he is transsated to the City which he
looked for, and the Kingdom more fixed than his
crosses, never to be shaken, and where all his cros-
sesare both removed and recompensed 3 now,I say,he
bears nothing but Stars3 now he is one of the brightesi
Ce 3 Stars
pable of that benevolence, and whose sore burning
eyes could not endure the beauty and shine os his
illuftrious virtues. For this indeed is now by sad ex-
perience found to be that, which chiessy exposed him
to all their undefatigable malice and fury i this led
him to the Tower, this brought him to the Scaffold ;
where he stil'i appeared more glorious than in his
throne, and laid down his life so like a Christian and
Bishop there,that they who took it away, could not
but relent at their own A and ashamed of their own
unreasonable fury, wished secretly it had never been
done ; for his golden Stars were not eclipsed nor dark-
ned, but refined by them. Then his bloody but sixed
erodes, they as naturally and significantly emblema*
tize both his cruel imprisonment, his unmerciful spoii
of his estate and goods, and (to perfect his Martyr-
dom) his Iosfe of lise : all which he bore with that
holy incomparable resolution and equanimity (as one
who was resolved not to lose his Crown in Heaven
though he lost all on earth) that now he hath gained
more by the barbarous rage of his enemies, than they
could do by their depriving, persecuting,or murdering
of him ; and yet thus much they gained by if,that like
hisgratious Master Jesus Christ, to whom he looked,
and whom he imitated, while they poured out his
blood, he poured out his prayers for them, that they
might repent and live and die as blessedly as himself.
And certainly, such prayers and blood had no little
vertue,no weak incense in them : for it is observed,
that ike St. Paul by the Protomartyr’s, many of his
molt bitter foes were softned by them, and he happily
extinguished those ssames of hatred by dyingglori-
oussy,which were unhappily kindled by living so.And
so now that he is transsated to the City which he
looked for, and the Kingdom more fixed than his
crosses, never to be shaken, and where all his cros-
sesare both removed and recompensed 3 now,I say,he
bears nothing but Stars3 now he is one of the brightesi
Ce 3 Stars