- suffringshonorable & comfortable when. Tpi1·it tofuffi:r for ~h~~; civil andfecularin- Cap.~3• terefrs and quarrels,he likes not to adventure -- himfelf in ; but the ondy quarrel~ tl~~t he - would ingage in, and lay down h1s hfefor, is the caufe,and truth of Chrifr, the worCnip and matter ~I' hi:r God. Life, as it is too little worth to be laid~ut for Chrifi, fo it is too ' · precious to be laid out in any other cau[e. I mufi take heed that my own blood be not mingledwith r.ny Sacriftce,as theGa/i.leamwas Luk·I3·1 with theirs. ThiJ iJ thank_:worthy o11.1e!J, ifaman for bi.r confcienee towardGad jitjfer, &c. .Attjlin / fomewhcre faith, Non refert qutaliaqz~il patia- De_civit tur, fed l_fU.tii.r quii patitur, It matters nol fo Det. 1. 1 • mu.cb what it is that .the mandoth Juffir, a.r what c. 8 • the man is that doth .fuffer . Vvhat an honour is it-if I can call my fuifering, tbe fojfering (JJ Chrift, Col. 2. 24. my skars and marks the - ~E')IfJ-~1~~,, brands amdmark!_ of the Lord Jejur; Gal. 6. 17 . and if I can fubfcribe my felf the , Prifoner of Chrift, Eph .3. 1. 4· Good Confcience loves to fee his ground he goes upon; that his cau[e be clear, his grounds manitdt, that hemay no't be fl:i– mulated and thrnfi forward , by a beady and turbulent fpirit, a miC-informed Con– fcience, but it rimft be for confcience to– wards God , or according to God ( the phrafe is emphaticall, the ConfcienceofGod) , , that I may fay as the fame Apofile in another l'ld. tlrJYH: , place, that I fi1ffer accordi"f, to the r.vill ofGod, l'n~IV .3-eas. ' I P~t.4.19. That when I lhall fay to G.Jd) 1 Pet. 2 • 1 9• Lord thou feefr what I do and fuffer fur thee, · 1have
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