An mei, inquit, oblitus es exempli, qui pro parvulis Christi, quos mihi in indicium suae dilectionis commendaverat, vincula, verbera, carceres, adflictiones, ipsam postremo mortem, mortem autem crucis, ab infidelibus et inimicis Christi ipse cum Christo coronandus pertuli? His beati Petri flagellis simul et exhortationibus animatus famulus Christi Laurentius, mox mane facto venit ad regem, et retecto vestimento quantis esset verberibus laceratus ostendit.
Hast thou, quoth he, forgot mine example, who for the little ones of Christ, which he commended to me in token of His love, did suffer fetters, stripes, imprisonings, afflictions, and at the last death itself, yea the death of the cross, by infidels and the enemies of Christ, that I might myself be crowned with Christ? By these stripes of the blessed Peter and these his exhortations Laurence the servant of Jesus Christ, being stirred up, came straightway to the king early in the morning and loosing his garment shewed him how sore he was beaten and pitifully his flesh torn.
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