For they, when they were scourged, with despite
and shame, and thereupon commanded to speak no more of the name of
Christ, "went their way from the council joyful and glad that God
had vouchsafed to do them the worship to suffer shameful despite
for the name of Jesus." And so proud were they of the shame and
villainous pain put unto them, that for all the forbidding of that
great council assembled, they ceased not every day to preach out
the name of Jesus still--not only in the temple, out of which they
were set and whipped for the same before, but also, to double it
with, they went preaching the name about from house to house, too.
Since we regard so greatly the estimation of worldly folk, I wish
that we would, among the many wicked things that they do, regard
also some such as are good. For it is a manner among them, in many
places, that some by handicraft, some by merchandise, some by other
kinds of living, arise and come forward in the world. And commonly
folk are in their youth set forth to suitable masters, under whom
they are brought up and grow. But now, whensoever they find a
servant such that he disdaineth to do such things as his master did
while he was himself a servant, that servant every man accounteth
for a proud unthrift, never like to come to good proof.
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