'I exhort you, therefore, not to faint in your
afflictions, but to be revived by God's love, and to add daily to your
zeal, knowing that in you ought to be preserved that remnant of true
religion which the Lord will find when He comes on the earth. Even if
bishops are driven from their Churches, be not dismayed. If traitors
have arisen from among the very clergy themselves, let not this
undermine your confidence in God. We are saved not by names, but by mind
and purpose, and genuine love toward our Creator. Bethink you how in
the attack against our Lord, high priests and scribes and elders devised
the plot, and how few of the people were found really receiving the
word. Remember that it is not the multitude who are being saved, but the
elect of God. Be not then affrighted at the great multitude of the
people who are carried hither and thither by winds like the waters of
the sea. If but one be saved, like Lot at Sodom, he ought to abide in
right judgment, keeping his hope in Christ unshaken, for the Lord will
not forsake His holy ones. Salute all the brethren in Christ from me.
Pray earnestly for my miserable soul.'
