'rhefujfering,or,Paffive.confcience. · 183 {{enfcience, wemufi th~~·efore_get it: Know C:ap.13. that all is nothing if this ~ wantmg, N<;>t: ;..,"- _ ... thyConfciertc~ of faith, puri'tieamiJinct!ri!i~,l not thy fi.!!icft:jightcd, w~tl-JPo'k.fn, welt~~omgJ not thy lnoffinjiveor TenderOtmfqience, If thou have not alfoth~s·Propertie,All i~ not worth aThank..: As all thou canft.do is riot WOl~th-_a r •...,_ • • 1hcmk.._, ifnot for Confoience fak~;-fo ·it feen:s d.'_. 1 Confciencei~ 1-elf is not woJ'tlJ. a.Thaqk 1{ not for [ujj~ring· fak!:- 1 • -~. · li Thisdid commend the fihri.!lians inold times} they had learned to [;,ger.. as much for ·::.,~. ~t~~·: · Re1igion, as we t:O . di_{]Htle for ·· i't, or .rather ·t .. 'M .... ·ag~Jin.fl it. They ~mild ~e ~oHtent to be boJtnd, that T rufh might be at lib$'rtic ; and to die, that Religion, might not die; an~ they chofe r-adier .r0 fuffi(for the Gofpel, th~n that the ·GafPel fnould fi.J.ffer throu~lt rthe~1; 'They ·were more w.Hling that Reli- -gion iliould live upon them, and their rui~u, then we are to live upon Religion, and its r1eine now ada~~e_s·. ·, Any thing was eafie fqr them to ftdfer tor Confcience, onely one thing theycouldnot endure, ·viz. to foffir in) ·andfrflmConfcience. And here might I write ~whole Vo~tm'l~ ofthe fufferings ofPrimi– tive, and later times, or tranfcribe many large Yolumes of_ Ecdlefiafiical Hifl:ories, treating ··ofthis fi.Ibjcct in theh~ Martyrologier. They weredeprived of States~ def{raded of Offices, yet-did bear it; they were imprifoned; they w~re exiled , yet did endure it ; they were · ,flttm, racked> tortured, yet did they (uffir it. · N 4 · Some
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