The sovereign and final happiness of man with the effectual means to obtain itThe soveraign and final happiness of man with the effectual means to obtain it

1. He must with unfainting Patience continue in doing his Duty, notwithstanding all Miseries and Calamities, Losses, Disgraces, Torments or Death it self, which wicked Men, and greater Enemies, the Powers of Darkness, can inflict upon us. To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for Glory, Honour and Immortality, Eternal Life is promised. He that endures to the End (notwithstanding the most terrible Sufferings to which he is exposed for Christ's sake) shall be saved. In this a Christian must be the express image of his Saviour, who for the joy that was set before him endured the Cross; despised the shame, and is set down at the right hand of God. Disgrace and Pain are Evils that humane Nature has a most tender sense of, yet the Son of God with a divine generosity and constancy endured them in the highest degrees. He was scorned as a feigned King, and a false Prophet. ⟨p. 148⟩He suffered a bloody Death, and by the Cross ascended to Glory. And we must follow him, if we desire to be where he is.

1. He must with unfainting Patience continue in doing his Duty, notwithstanding all Miseries and Calamities, Losses, Disgraces, Torments or Death it self, which wicked Men, and greater Enemies, the Powers of Darkness, can inflict upon us. To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for Glory, Honour and Immortality, Eternal Life is promised. He that endures to the End (notwithstanding the most terrible Sufferings to which he is exposed for Christ's sake) shall be saved. In this a Christian must be the express image of his Saviour, who for the joy that was set before him endured the Cross; despised the shame, and is set down at the right hand of God. Disgrace and Pain are Evils that humane Nature has a most tender sence of, yet the Son of God with a divine generosity and constancy endured them in the highest degrees. He was scorn'd as a feigned King, and a false Prophet. ⟨p. 148⟩He suffered a bloody Death, and by the Cross ascended to Glory. And we must follow him, if we desire to be where he is.