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

2. If you would witness a good confession in these days of ours, then you must be willing to own the truth of Christ, to own it whensoever you are called thereunto: 'tis said, our Saviour Christ he witnessed a good Confession before Pontius Pilate.—Pray what kind of witness was it—was it any long confession, or large,—n•, •ut the manner on't was this, ⟨p. 103⟩when they called him before them to give an account of any fact, he left them to prove it. When they called him to give an account of the Doctrine that he held, Art thou the King of the Jews? then he owned it. He left them to prove the fact, and he owned the truth; so should we do. And indeed, if that we be not willing for to own the truth when we are called thereunto, why how can it be that the mark of the Father should be written upon our Foreheads only. We read of the followers of the Beast, that they received a mark in their right hands, and in their Foreheads both:—why in the Forehead, and why in the hand? In the Forehead, sometimes to wear it openly—And in their right hands, to put it into their pockets, and to hide it. They can own it sometimes, and sometimes they can hide it: but the followers of the Lamb, they have the mark of their Father only in their Forehead. Therefore I say, If we would witness a good Confession, we must be willing to own the truth whensoever we are called thereunto.

2. If you would witness a good confession in these dayes of ours, then you must be willing to own the truth of Christ, to own it whensoever you are called thereunto: 'tis said, our Saviour Christ he witnessed a good Confession before Pontius Pilate.—Pray what kind of witness was it—was it any long confession, or large,—n•, •ut the manner on't was this, ⟨p. 103⟩when they call'd him before them to give an account of any fact, he left them to prove it. When they called him to give an account of the Doctrine that he held, Art thou the King of the Jews? then he owned it. He left them to prove the fact, and he owned the truth; so should we do. And indeed, if that we be not willing for to own the truth when we are called thereunto, why how can it be that the mark of the Father should be written upon our Foreheads only. We read of the followers of the Beast, that they received a mark in their right hands, and in their Foreheads both:—why in the Forehead, and why in the hand? In the Forehead, sometimes to wear it openly—And in their right hands, to put it into their pockets, and to hide it. They can own it sometimes, and sometimes they can hide it: but the followers of the Lamb, they have the mark of their Father only in their Forehead. Therefore I say, If we would witness a good Confession, we must be willing to own the truth whensoever we are called thereunto.