The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatisesThe dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises

Faith doth clothe the soul with suffering resolutions, to go through a Sea, through a Wilderness, through the hottest Skirmishes, the hardest Trials for Christ. You see it every where in Scripture. In Michaiah, in Jeremiah, in the three Children, in Daniel, in the Apostles. And to these I might add many more. As that of old Polycarp; when he was persuaded to deny Christ, rather than to dye for Christ. ¹— These fourscore and six years I have served Christ; and he hath never hurt me all this time, and how then can I blaspheme my King and Saviour?

Faith doth cloathe the soul with suffering resolutions, to go through a Sea, through a Wilderness, through the hottest Skirmishes, the hardest Tryals for Christ. You see it every where in Scripture. In Michaiah, in Jeremiah, in the three Children, in Daniel, in the Apostles. And to these I might adde many more. As that of old Polycarp; when hee was perswaded to deny Christ, rather than to dye for Christ. ¹— These fourscore and six years I have served Christ; and hee hath never hurt mee all this time, and how then can I blaspheme my King and Saviour?

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The like of Cyprian, who being desired to consult with himself, before he should suffer,¹ replies. — Do your office. In so just a thing as this there needs no Consultation.

The like of Cyprian, who being desired to consult with himself, before hee should suffer,¹