Seasonable truths in evil-times in several sermons / lately preached in and about London

I but you will say, Indeed I find my heart extremely backward to suffer for the Name of Christ. What shall I do, that I may be willing now for the present to suffer for the Cause or the Name of Christ? Here are divers Directions.

I but you will say, Indeed I find my heart extreamly backward to suffer for the Name of Christ. What shall I do, that I may be willing now for the present to suffer for the Cause or the Name of Christ? Here are divers Directions.

Directions to suffer for the Name of Christ. First, Whensoever you do receive any thing from God, when you do receive it, then engage your hearts to offer it up unto God, when God calls for it again, to lay it out for God. And if at any time you find your hearts willing, then pray to God, and say, The Lord continue this in the thoughts of my poor heart for ever: whensoever you receive, then engage, and keep this engagement fresh upon your hearts. ⟨p. 88⟩Secondly, Train up your selves in leaving and forsaking a worldly interest for the Name of Christ; the Gospel calls for this work daily: for you know the Parable: A certain man made a great feast, and invited many; and sent his servant at Supper-time to say to them that were bidden, Come, for all things are now ready. And they all with one consent began to make excuse. One said, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must go see it: Another said, I have bought five yoke of Oxen, and I must go prove them: Another said, I have married a wife, and therefore cannot come. All these were excuses. But we should daily be parting with a worldly interest for the Gospel and Name of God. It was a true speech of Mr. Greenham, He will never be able to suffer by a Papist, that cannot suffer from a Protestant. Train up your selves every day; daily you must meet with one Temptation or another, therefore be daily training your selves up in this work of leaving and forsaking your worldly interest for the Lord Jesus Christ. Thirdly, Use the World as if you used it not, for the fashion of this world passeth away. He that is glued to the world, will never leave and forsake much of the worldly interest for the name of Jesus Christ: the more a mans heart is glued to the world and the things thereof, the more unwilling he will be to part with a worldly interest for Jesus Christ. Therefore let him that uses the world, be as if he used it not; he that marries, as if he married not; and they that weep, as if they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; and they that use this world, as not abusing it; for the fashion of