87. Of external warfare I am not afraid, nor
of that wild beast, and fulness of evil, who has now arisen against the
churches, though he may threaten fire, sword, wild beasts, precipices,
chasms; though he may show himself more inhuman than all previous
madmen, and discover fresh tortures of greater severity. I have
one remedy for them all, one road to victory; I will glory in
Christ Phil. iii. 3. namely, death for
Christ’s sake.