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Secondly, Gods people have been greedy of them. Origen was so earnest to suffer with his father, when he was a youth of sixteen years of age, that if his mother had not kept his clothes from him, he would have run to the place where his father suffered, to profess himself a Christian, and to have suffered with him. And so the story of the poor Woman in the book of Martyrs, that made haste to the place where many Christians were to be burned, and meeting with the Persecutor, says he, What need you make such haste to that place, there are many to be burned? Ah, says she, that I know, and I am afraid all will ¹be done before I come; I and my child would fain suffer with them: And many blessed the day of their suffering. Alice Drivers expression was, That never ²neckerchief became her so well, as that chain did: and are you so shy of them? what difference is between you and their spirits. Again, what unthankfulness and dishonour is this to Christ, that hath suffered so much for you. Christ hath gloried in the sufferings he suffered for you, and why should you be afraid of sufferings for him? it was a notable speech of an Ancient, Acceptable is the reproach of the Cross to ⟨p. 468⟩him that is not unthankful to him that was crucified upon the Cross. And what confusion will it be upon ³you another day, when you shall see those that suffered are so glorified, that their sufferings are crowns of such immortal glory? O consider what you do; deprive not your selves of such glorious riches.

Secondly, Gods people have been greedy of them. Origen was so earnest to suffer with his father, when he was a youth of sixteen years of age, that if his mother had not kept his clothes from him, he would have run to the place where his father suffered, to profess himself a Christian, and to have suffered with him. And so the story of the poor Woman in the book of Martyrs, that made haste to the place where many Christians were to be burned, and meeting with the Persecutor, says he, What need you make such haste to that place, there are many to be burned? Ah, says she, that I know, and I am afraid all will