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'tis but a Sacrifice to my Humour, to my Obstinacy, and Stomack, like that of Clement and Ravilliac, who died Martyrs to the Popedom, and not to Christ; or like the Martyrdom of Hierocles, who writ a Book against Christ, and after That at Byzantium died a Martyr to his Stoicism, as our English Regicides to their Fanaticism, and Vanninus to his Atheism. Those alone were the Deities which they ador'd, and died for. 'Tis not the Bravery of the Sufferer, but the Divinity of the Cause, which makes a Martyrdom meritorious (if any properly can be such) in any measure: |
it's but a Sacrifice to my Humour, to my Obstinacy, and Stomach, like that of Clement and Ravaillac, who died Martyrs to the Popedom, and not to christ; or like the Martyrdom of Hierocles, who writ a Book against christ, and After That At Byzantium died a Martyr to his Stoicism, as our English Regicides to their Fanaticism, and Vanninus to his Atheism. Those alone were the Deities which they adored, and died for. It's not the Bravery of the Sufferer, but the Divinity of the Cause, which makes a Martyrdom meritorious (if any properly can be such) in any measure: |
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