“All good things cometh of the bountifulness, liberality, mercy, promises, and truth of God by the deserving of Christ’s blood only.”
“He that hath,” he thus expounds. “Where the Word of God is understood, there it multiplieth and maketh the people better; where it is not understood, there it decreaseth and maketh the people worse.”
These notes, as we shall see, were subsequently omitted, but it is easy to see that they were calculated to give serious offence to the Romish authorities.
CHAPTER VI.
HATED BY THE CARDINAL, BUT WORKING
FOR GOD.
“Many are the sayings of the wise,
Extolling patience as the truest fortitude,
But with the afflicted in his pangs their sound
Little prevails, ... unless he feel within
Some source of consolation from above,
Secret refreshings that repair his strength,