you what you seek? what are you about to do? what
object do you desire to gain? Is it one well-pleasing to God, or is it
not rather one He abhors? Is it revenge? The Gospel of Jesus Christ
will not permit its indulgence. Is it to overthrow principalities and
powers? The Gospel orders us to obey them. Is it to oppose the power
of the Papacy? The light of truth can alone do that. Is it lust,
rapine, murder, you desire to commit? Those who do such things can
never inherit the kingdom of heaven. Listen, dear friends, to those who
love you, who feel for you, who know that you have souls to be saved--
precious souls above all price in God's sight, for them He sent down His
Son on earth to suffer far more wrongs than you have ever suffered.
Endanger not these precious souls by the acts you contemplate. Turn
aside from your purpose, fall on your knees, and pray to God to
enlighten your minds, to give you patience above all things to bear your
sufferings here for a short time, that, trusting in the merits of Christ
Jesus, who once suffered for you, and now reigns and pleads for you, you
maybe raised up to dwell with Him, to reign with Him in happiness
unspeakable for ever and ever."

Such was the style of eloquence with which one of the great leaders of
the Reformation addressed the lately infuriated insurgents. It went to
their hearts; they acknowledged its truth, the power from which it
flowed, and yielded to its influence. Peaceably they divided into small
parties; thus they returned to their villages, to their separate homes,
speaking as they went of the love of Christ, and the sufferings He had
endured for their sakes, and praying that they too might endure any
sufferings it might please their heavenly Father to call on them to bear
with patience for His sake, that thus the Christian character might be
exalted in the eyes of the world.

The three friends returned to the Castle. The success of their
undertaking was heard of with astonishment. The Knight went to his
Testament, and came back exclaiming, "I see, I see, it was the right way
to do it. It was the way Jesus Christ would have acted, and I doubt not
He was with you to counsel and guide you."

Dame Margaret and Laneta, and even Father Nicholas, confessed that the
mode they had employed with Dr Martin Luther and others, to put down
the insurrection, was far more satisfactory and sensible than that which
the Roman Catholic nobles and knights had pursu