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I have joust cause, as hath eke Christian heart, To wail and weep, to shed out tears of blood: When as I call to mind, the torments and the smart, Which those have born, who honest be and good, For nought else, but because, their errors they withstood: Yet joyed I much, to see how patiently, They boar the crose of Christ, with constancy. In the new Testament, we may also reed, That our Saviour Christ, even in his Infancy, Of Herod the King might stand in great dread: Who sought to destroy him, such was his insolency: Afterwards of the Pharisees, he did with constancy, Suffer shameful death, his Apostles also, For testimony of the truth, did their crosses under go. It is no new thing, I do now perceive, That Christ's Church do suffer tribulation, But that the same cross I might better receive: I request you to show me for my consolation: What is the cause, by your estimation: That God does suffer, his people be in thrall Yet help them so soon as they to him call. This is the sum of all your talk, if that I guess a right, That God does punish his electt to keep their faith in use, Or least that if continual ease, and rest enjoy they might: God to forget through haughtiness, frail nature should procure: Or else by feeling punishment, our sins for to abjure: Or else to prove our constancy, or lastly that we may, Be instruments in whom his might, God may abroad display. Now must I needs confess, to you my former ignorance, Which knew no cause at all, why God should trouble his elect, But thought afflictions all, to be rewards for our offence: And to proceed from wrathful Judge, did always it susped: As do the common sort of men, who will straightway direct And point their fingers at such men, as God does chastise here, Esteeming them by joust desert, their punishment to bear. With right good will, I will attend on you, your house unto: Or else go you with Me to mine, the longer journey save: For it is now high dinner time, my stomach meat do that crave: Go you before, and I will come behind with all my heart.
Plot summary
Plot — The Conflict of Conscience
Satan, concerned about the spread of godliness on Earth, procures Hypocrisy, Tyranny, and Avarice to counteract it by propagating vice through the Roman Catholic church. Philologus and Mathetes discuss the danger to Protestantism, and conclude that worldly torments are sent by God to test men’s faith. After arguing about their mutual precedence, the vices resolve to help the papal legation, and adopt innocuous aliases. Tyranny is commissioned as an inquisitor to hunt heretics, while Avarice accepts their bribes to save them from arrest. Caconos alerts the vices to the heresies of Philologus, who is arrested and tried by the Cardinal in consistory court. He is examined on the topics of papal authority and transubstantiation, and found guilty. His property is confiscated and his family’s distress used to put psychological pressure on him; he is also threatened with imprisonment, torture, and execution, but promised money and power if he recants. He does, persuaded by the glass of vanity given by Sensual Suggestion. Spirit and Conscience call on Philologus to renounce his apostasy and embrace martyrdom, but he rejects them. In prosperity, he is visited by Horror, who torments him with the knowledge of his own damnation. Theologus and Eusebius urge the continuing availability of God’s grace, but Philologus blasphemes and curses God. Despairing of salvation, he hangs himself. (In the B-text, he is given grace to repent at the last moment.)