The Examinations and Writings of John Philpot, B.C.L., Archdeacon of Winchester, Martyr, 1555, ed. Robert Eden for the Parker Society (Cambridge: University Press, 1842), Letters, Letter IX, pp. 245–246

If the church in England had learned, with the gospel, to have borne the cross of Christ, as all that be professors of the gospel be called thereunto, they would not so lightly, at the commandment of man, have turned fro…