John Trapp on Psalms 44:22

Verſ. 22. Yea for thy ſake are we ki[illegible: 1 letter]ed, &c. q. d. Thou knoweſt that for thy ſake,Potes videre hominem morte affici quare mortificetur neſcis. Aug. Act. & Mon. 8[illegible: 1 letter] (and not for vain glory, or out of pertinacy, &c.) we are killed. Tis the cauſe, and not the puniſhment, that maketh the Martyr. Some ſuffer as Malefactors rather.

We are counted as ſheep for the ſlaughter] As thoſe Chriſtians in Calabria, Anno 1560. thruſt up in one houſe together, as in a Sheep-fold, and butchered ſeverally. See Rom. 8.36. beſides thoſe many, whoſe names being written in red Letters of bloud in the Churches Calender, are written in golden Letters in Chriſts Regiſter in the book of life, as Prudentius hath it.