An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of…

the Saints they look upon the Law of God so great, as they had rather suffer all the miseries and torments that any man in the world,¹ any Tyrant can devise, than willingly to break the Law in any one thing; surely they account it a great matter, when a man shall be willing rather to lose his estate, and liberty, yea, and life, to suffer tortures and torments, and all because he will not offend the Law of God in any one thing, though he might escape all if he would; nay, saith a gracious heart, Let all go rather than I will venture to break the Law of God in any one thing, surely he looks upon the Law of God as very great. Men of the world think them to be fools, and why will you be content to suffer so much, lose all your friends? what, venture to lose your estates which have such a fair way of living as you have? what venture a prison, and venture your life? the world thinks they are but little things and trifles, and men are more precise than wise, and they need not trouble themselves so much. If God would but show to you how great a thing his Law is, and all the threatenings which are revealed therein, you would account your estates, and lives and all your comforts as little and poor in comparison of that Law; hence in Revel. 6. 9. I saw under the Altar the souls of them that were slain for the Word of God, ²and ⟨p. 101⟩for the testimony which they held. Wherefore were they slain? Surely it was for some great matter that they would venture their lives, it was for the Word of God, and for the Testimony which they held. And thus the Saints of God have ever accounted the Law of God a great thing. I have written unto them the great things of my Law.

the Saints they look upon the Law of God so great, as they had rather suffer all the miseries and torments that any man in the world,¹ any Tyrant can devise, than willingly to break the Law in any one thing; surely they account it a great matter, when a man shal be willing rather to lose his estate, and liberty, yea, and life, to suffer tortures and torments, and all because he will not offend the Law of God in any one thing, though he might escape all if he would; nay, saith a gracious heart, Let all go rather than I will venture to break the Law of God in any one thing, surely he looks upon the Law of God as very great. Men of the world think them to be fools, and why will you be content to suffer so much, lose all your friends? what, venture to lose your estates which have such a fair way of living as you have? what venture a prison, and venture your life? the world thinks they are but little things and trifles, and men are more precise than wise, and they need not trouble themselves so much. If God would but shew to you how great a thing his Law is, and all the threatnings which are revealed therein, you would account your estates, and lives and all your comforts as little and poor in comparison of that Law; hence in