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Eleventhly, What honour should God have in the world? where would there be any witness to truth, ¹against the rage and malice of devil and wicked men, if all should do as thou doest? If there be any Christian blood left in thee, if any spirit worthy of thy profession, be ashamed of thy baseness this way, and be not so shy of afflictions.

Eleventhly, What honor should God have in the world? where would there be any witness to truth, ¹against the rage and malice of devil and wicked men, if all should do as thou doest? If there be any Christian blood left in thee, if any spirit worthy of thy profession, be ashamed of thy baseness this way, and be not so shy of afflictions.

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Secondly, when thou art under afflictions, let there ¹be an humble contented frame of spirit, as beseems a Christian; seeing thou art now under an Ordinance of God, take heed of the least murmuring, repining against God, as if he were a hard Master; or as if his ways were hard and burdensome, because of the afflictions thou meetest withal: when thy spirit begins any way to rise in such workings, charge thy soul to be silent unto God; it is a great shame for a Christian, not to be well skilled in that art, instructed in ⟨p. 92⟩that mystery of Christian contentation. Say with thy Saviour, Shall not I drink of that cup my Father hath given me to drink? It is Gods appointment, that his people should be in an afflicted estate in this world; it is the cup of my Father, and shall not I quietly, and contentedly drink of that cup? Now thou hast an opportunity to manifest the power and excellency of thy grace, to show what thy grace can enable thee to do; strength of reason will go far, in quieting and calming of the heart under afflictions; but grace surely, where it is true, will go farther.