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1 | Suffering for the Truth of the Gospel | Luke 17:33 | DocTrinsograce | 241832 | ||
"All the banishments, imprisonments, racks, tortures, and other innumerable oppressions testify clearly that our desire and conviction is not carnal, since, according to the flesh, we could have had it much more comfortable if we had not taken a stand for these [Protestant] doctrines. "However, since we had the fear of God before our eyes [2 Corinthians 5:11] and thus dreading the threat of Jesus Christ, who says that He will deny us before God His Father, should we deny Him before men [Matthew 10:33]: we offer our backs to the whip's lash, our tongues to the knives, the mouth to the muzzle, and the whole body to the flames. For we know that whoever will follow Christ must take up his cross and deny himself [Matthew 16:24]. Never would a well-disciplined soul that is, one who is not spiritually blind or robbed of his senses, contemplate the upheaval of forsaking one's land, one’s relatives, and one's friends, in order to be able to live in peace and tranquility. Never would a spiritually sound person purpose to suffer for the gospel's sake by seeking to remove the king's crown or by resolving to oppose him by means of deceit, for in the gospel we read: give to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's [Matthew 22:21]. "Rather these believers, while offering and abandoning their bodies and their goods to the King, humbly supplicate his Majesty that it may be granted them to render obedience to God in what He requires. For we have not the right nor may we refuse to obey Him, because He has made us [Acts 17:24] and purchased us for Himself through the payment of the most dear price of infinite worth [Acts 20:28]." --Guido de Bres to King Philip II of Spain (1562) |
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