By this meanes the bloody effusion of blood is turned in the holy Martyrs and those that suffer for the name of God, into the forme of a crowned Palme tree, or else an euerlasting reward of a victorie gotten, that so the crowne of an immortall kingdome might be signified. But not those onely which shed their blood for the confession of their faith, are therefore thought worthie of the name of Martyrs, but they which following the Lord Christ, for the inheritance of the kingdome of heauen, take vp his crosse, paciently bearing the contume- lies, and reproches of this world, wherein the chiefest kinde of martyrdome is for the most part occupied, and exercised.
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