An exposition upon the thirteenth chapter of the Revelation by that reverend and eminent…

Now this is comfort that the Lord accounts them Saints when they are warred against, (as here in the Text) and all the world thinks it a matter justly deserving Salvation to shed their blood like water, then doth the Lord bear witness they are Heretics. So that let every christian soul carry this home with him, that it is not every act of unbelief that makes a man no Saint, for these trusted too much upon the forces of others, and if they had prevailed, for God never fails any that put their trust in him; never do the Saints fail in any expedition to men but when they fail in trust to God, 1 John 5. 4. This is the victory that overcometh the world, ⟨p. 108⟩even our Faith: He that believeth in the Son of God for Redemption and Protection, and turns not aside, whether he go forth with many, or with few, it is all one for that; if it were but David with a sling and a stone, he shall prevail against Goliath: The Lord is faithful, never did any faithful soul perish till his faith failed and shrunk; and then when Peters faith shrinks, he begins to sink. But it may be a ground of much consolation to any Saint of God, the Lord doth not dissaint a man, or cast him out of the Catalogue of Saints for this and that failing, but still they are Saints, a Saint in peace, and a Saint in war, even when they are overcome; when they are in calamity, and the plowers plough upon their backs, and make large furrows, they are the Saints of God, still leaning to the Voice and Counsel of the Lord; and when they start aside to Popish pretences: Only when they cleave to the Lord, and trust steadfastly upon him, then they prosper and flourish; but if they begin to shrink in their faith, and to hearken to pretences and terms of peace, then wonder not if you see them overcome, yet still faith is invincible, and their cause and Religion is propagated by their dispersion, it was not destroyed. And therefore if the Lord accounts us Saints, it behooves us to be ashamed of every passage of our lives that doth not become the Saints of God. When Religion came low, and Antichrist overspread the world, the Lord accounted his faithful ones to be Saints; in this battle there was a Generation of Saints whom he owns:

Now this is comfort that the Lord accounts them Saints when they are warred against, (as here in the Text) and all the world thinks it a matter justly deserving Salvation to shed their bloud like water, then doth the Lord beare witnesse they are Heriticks. So that let every christian soul carry this home with him, that it is not every act of unbeleif that makes a man no Saint, for these trusted too much upon the forces of others, and if they had prevailed, for God never failes any that put their trust in him; never do the Saints fail in any expedition to men but when they faile in trust to God,