186 'lhefoffiring, ur,PaffitpeConfcience.· Cap.I3· , But how littleo fi this good Con[cience __.,.,..is to be found n.Jw adaies, when Chrift faith, Who i1 o;; ·my fidel who? Our times have brought forth many a degenerate Chrifiian,fil~n andfotten Chriftians, Chri– ftians for the right.hand and the left, ifChria have any Kingdoms, Mannours, or Honours to beftow : But if a Cr01s., they all forfake him, and fly, and fhift for the:miclves, as the terrifiectDifciples did the n ight of his Paf– fion . Lttther call's 1omeof the Divines ofhis Time Tbeolo~oJ G!orilf, they wouldnot fuffer : Some faithtull Ones were called 'l'hcologi Cruci1, fo have we,many Saints now ada1es, , who are rather Triumphant Saints, then Saints militant. Well, we know who hath fa id, He that· is ajhamedofme, I fhall one day be Mar.a. 3 s. afhamed ofhim; he that loveth bi1 li[e,jlJalt lo[e it; .but he that lofeth hi1 life for .my jak!,,jhall Joh.I2·2S· ftnde it~ . . . . ; . There is no condition, or foi"t of men; have in Scripture more abund.ant, arid more excellent Promift.r then .thefe that fuffer; And none in Scripture have more Cautionf, and Rules given, then thofe fet down tO .,.eg.ulate and circumferibe our fufferings : fo~ an that fhffer cannot f~y they fuffer for Confcience, and for God: and then what t4ank can they exfpect from ·God, if they fi1ffer for th~eir bWI1 default, d1ey mufi ( ~s we fay) thanlz. themfelvu. . . f?ur ill · Thene be.[Our kjndeJ of f~fferings whic? ·a ~~ftn?~s of goodCon[Clet1ce can have no comfort 1n, ~u ermg5· , • there-
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