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

What Epaminondas said: (who having resolved concerning his Buckler, either to defend it, or to dye for it; being wounded to death, brake forth into these words — Num salvus est Clypeus meus? Is my Buckler safe? If that be safe, I am well.) So the Believer, in the midst of all his sufferings; if he can keep his Buckler safe, hold up God, and his Glory: All is well.

What Epaminondas said: (who having resolved concerning his Buckler, either to defend it, or to dye for it; being wounded to death, brake forth into these words — Num salvus est Clypeus meus? Is my Buckler safe? If that bee safe, I am well.) So the Beleever, in the midst of all his sufferings; if hee can keep his Buckler safe, hold up God, and his Glory: All is well.

3. A strong Faith will believe nothing contrary to his belief. All the temptations of Satan, all the arguments of men shall never be able to reason him out of his Faith.

3. A strong Faith will beleeve nothing contrary to his belief. All the temptations of Satan, all the arguments of men shall never bee able to reason him out of his Faith.

A weak Faith is quickly brought to deny his conclusion, to yield up the cause: Satan may make a man unsay, what formerly he hath said. But a strong Faith will hold the conclusion against all Satan's sophistry. His Faith hath been gotten up by many invincible experiences; from Gods behaviour to him, as a Father; from the souls behaviour to him, as a Child. And all that Satan can do, shall not out-reason his Faith. What a man saith by feeling; a temptation may make him unsay: but what a man saith by ⟨p. 155⟩