Howbeit, as I said, I will not strive for it, nor indeed as our
matter standeth I shall not greatly need to do so. For if they say
that he who suffereth tribulation and martyrdom for the faith shall
have high reward, not for his work but for his well-working faith,
yet since they grant that have it he shall, the cause of high
comfort in the third kind of tribulation standeth. And that is, you
know, the effect of all my purpose.
VINCENT: Verily, good uncle, this is truly driven and tried unto
the uttermost, it seemeth to me. And therefore I pray you proceed
at your leisure.
XIII
ANTHONY: Cousin, it would be a long work to peruse every comfort
that a man may well take in tribulation. For as many comforts, you
know, may a man take thereof, as there be good commodities therein.
And of those there are surely so many that it would be very long to
rehearse and treat of them. But meseemeth we cannot lightly better
perceive what profit and commodity, and thereby what comfort, they
may take of it who have it, than if we well consider what harm the
lack of it is, and thereby what discomfort the lack should be to
them that never have it.
So is it now that all holy men agree, and all the scripture is
full, and our own experience proveth before our eyes, that we are
not come into this wretched world to dwell here.
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