A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

4. Hereby we shall be enabled most resolvedly to suffer being called to it, when it is for the great things of the Gospel, the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ, clearly and with assurance understood and acknowledged. Such a faith will not be without its pleasant relishes. 'Tis an uncomfortable thing to suffer either for the mere spiritless, uncertain, unoperative notions and opinions, or for the unenlivened outward forms of Religion, that we never felt to do us good, in which we never tasted sweetness, or felt power, that we were really nothing ever the better for. But who will hesitate at suffering for so great things as the substantials of the Gospel, which he hath clearly understood, whereof he is fully assured, and which he hath practically acknowledged, and embraced, so as to feel the energy and power of them, and relish their delicious sweetness in his soul! And though by such suffering he himself perish from off this earth, his Religion lives, is spread the more in the present age, and propagated to after ages. So seminal and fruitful a thing is the blood of Martyrs! as hath always been observed.

4. Hereby we shall be inabled most resolvedly to suffer being call'd to it, when it is for the great things of the Gospel, the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ, clearly and with assurance understood and acknowledg'd. Such a faith will not be without its pleasant relishes. 'Tis an uncomfortable thing to suffer either for the meer spiritless, uncertain, unoperative notions and opinions, or for the unenlivened outward forms of Religion, that we never felt to do us good, in which we never tasted sweetness, or felt power, that we were really nothing ever the better for. But who will hesitate at suffering for so great things as the substantials of the Gospel, which he hath clearly understood, whereof he is fully assured, and which he hath practically acknowledged, and embraced, so as to feel the energy and power of them, and relish their delicious sweetness in his soul! And thô by such suffering he himself perish from off this earth, his Religion lives, is spread the more in the present age, and propagated to after ages. So seminal and fruitful a thing is the blood of Martyrs! as hath alwaies been observ'd.