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14 Apostle tells you of, Heb. 11. How they were tortured, mocked, scourged, imprisoned, stoned, sawn asunder, slay with the sword, wandred up and down in sheeps-skins, and goats-skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented, wandering in deserts, mountains, dens, and caves in the earth. And after, for the Christian church, we know that Christ himself, the great Leader of his people suffered contempts, miseries, scorns, scourges, cursed, cruel shameful death. When Stephen the first Christian Martyr was stoned, Dorotheus witnesseth that two thousand of those that believed in Christ, were put to death the same day. All the twelve Apostles after many sore and grievous afflictions endured, suffered many violent deaths John only excepted: yet some historians make mention, he was thrown into a tun of scalding Lead; yet delivered by a miracle; The ten fearfull persecutions in the Primitive time for three hundred years together, the name of a Christian was death: Brightman spea-