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Secondly: If you would strengthen your Faith to suffer great, and hard things, study much the Book of the Revelation, which is a standing Cordial for the relief of the Saints, in suffering in Anti-christian times; and study, and read, and commend to your Children, the Book of Martyrs, where you have Examples to the Life, of the People of God, dying for the Faith: but above all things, study much the Sufferings of Christ. Faith, true saving Faith, it loves to dwell in the Wounds of Christ; and believe it, the sight ⟨p. 32⟩of a suffering Christ will teach one to suffer; nothing like it: the example of Christ, especially the sight of Christs Sufferings, will not only teach you to suffer, but will sanctify your heart by the Suffering, and will provoke you to suffer. What! shall the Lord Christ suffer such great things for me, and shall I suffer nothing for him? Study the Sufferings of Christ.

Secondly: If you would strengthen your Faith to suffer great, and hard things, study much the Book of the Revelation, which is a standing Cordial for the relief of the Saints, in suffering in Anti-christian times; and study, and read, and commend to your Children, the Book of Martyrs, where you have Examples to the Life, of the People of God, dying for the Faith: but above al things, study much the Sufferings of Christ. Faith, true saving Faith, it loves to dwel in the Wounds of Christ; and beleeve it, the sight ⟨p. 32⟩of a suffering Christ wil teach one to suffer; nothing like it: the example of Christ, especially the sight of Christs Sufferings, wil not only teach you to suffer, but wil sanctifie your heart by the Suffering, and wil provoke you to suffer. What! shal the Lord Christ suffer such great things for me, and shal I suffer nothing for him? Study the Sufferings of Christ.

Thirdly: If you would so strengthen your Faith as you may be able to suffer hard things, consider much, and frequently, the great gains of Suffering, possess your heart therewithal. Beloved, Suffering times are gaining times; and if your heart, and mind were but possest with that Truth, it would not be a hard thing to suffer hard things, and that by Faith: I shall therefore spend a little time to make out this, for the strengthening of your Faith, that suffering times are gaining times.