The.viii. Chapter. Of that kynde of tribulacion vvhich though they not vvillingly take, yet they vvillingly su

Vincent. VErely good Uncle so may you wel doe, for you haue brought it vnto veri good passe. And now I requier you to come to that other kynde, of which you purposed alwaye to treate laste.

☞Anthony. That shall I Cosin very gladli doe. The other kynde is this which I rehersed second, & sortyng cut the other twayne, haue kept it for ye laste.

This kynde of trybulacion is you wote well, of […]hem that wyllingly suffer tribulacion, thoughe that of theyr owne choyse they toke it not at the fyrste.

This kynde Cosyn deuide we shall in to twayne. The fyrst might we call temptaciō, the second persecution. But here muste you consyder that I meane not euery kynde of persecution, but ye kinde onely, whiche though the sufferer woulde be lothe to fall in, yet wyll he rather abyde it and suffer it, than by the flitting frō it, fall in ye dyspleasure of God, or leaue gods pleasure vnprocured. Howebeit, if we cōsidre these two thinges wel, temptaciō & persecucyon, we maye finde yt eyther of them is incydent to ye other. For bothe by temptatiō the Deuyl persecuteth vs, & by persecucion the Deuyl also tempteth vs: and as persecution is trybulacion to euery man, so is temptacion tribulaciō to a good man.

Now though the Deuyll our spyrituall enemy fight agaynst man in bothe, yet this difference hathe the cō mon temptacyon from the persecucion, that temptaciō playn is as it were the fiendes trayn, & persecuciō his open fight. And therfore will I now call all this kynd of trybulation here, by the name of temptacion, & that shall I deuide into two partes. The fyrst shall I call the Deuilles traynes, the other his open fight.