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Fifthly,¹ when men are full of resolutions, and speak great words that way, but they do nothing to lay up and prepare for sufferings. What care and endeavour is there to cleanse the heart? to strengthen Faith? to get more full sense of Gods love? to provide spiritual armour? what prayers? what tears are sent up to God afore-hand? Strong resolutions, if they be right, will bring forth strong endeavours; otherwise they will certainly vanish.

Fifthly,¹ when men are full of resolutions, and speake great words that way, but they doe nothing to lay up and prepare for sufferings. What care and endeavour is there to cleanse the heart? to strengthen Faith? to get more full sense of Gods love? to provide spirituall armour? what prayers? what teares are sent up to God afore-hand? Strong resolutions, if they bee right, will bring forth strong endeavours; otherwise they will certainely vanish.

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Sixthly,¹ when mens resolutions come from external principles, they are acted by something from without them, as the examples of others, or esteem from others, or persuasions by others, more then from any principle within themselves. We read, Heb. 10. 34. those Christians there mentioned held out in their resolutions, to the suffering the spoiling of their goods with joy, knowing within themselves, that in ⟨p. 207⟩Heaven they had an enduring substance; they had their principles within themselves.