For of this am I very sure:
If we had the fifteenth part of the love for Christ that he both
had and hath for us, all the pain of this Turk's persecution could
not keep us from him, but there would be at this day as many
martyrs here in Hungary as there have been before in other
countries of old.
And I doubt not but that, if the Turk stood even here with all his
whole army about him; and if every one of them all were ready at
hand with all the terrible torments that they could imagine, and
were setting their torments to us unless we would forsake the
faith; and if to the increase of our terror they fell all at once
in a shout, with trumpets, tabrets, and timbrels all blown up at
once, and all their guns let go therewith to make us a fearful
noise; if then, on the other hand, the ground should suddenly quake
and rive atwain, and the devils should rise out of hell and show
themselves in such ugly shape as damned wretches shall see them;
and if, with that hideous howling that those hell-hounds should
screech, they should lay hell open on every side round about our
feet, so that as we stood we should look down into that pestilent
pit and see the swarm of poor souls in the terrible torments
there--we would wax so afraid of the sight that we should scantly
remember that we saw the Turk's host.
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