Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
Because it is so ordained, that all men of a certain natural instinct, are desirous of health & wealth, it cannot be chosen, but they must be much offended at adversity & tribulation, especially such as accustometh to rise because of religion.
Rudolf Gwalther, An hundred, threescore and fifteen Homilies or Sermons, upon the Acts of the Apostles, written by Saint Luke, trans. John Bridges (London: Henry Denham, 1572), p. 267.
