Several discourses tending to promote peace & holiness among Christians to which are added,…

Some promise fair, to be contented with a naked Christ, tho they run all Hazards, because they hope God will not take them at their Words; but as soon as the Cross cometh, wriggle, shift, and distinguish themselves out of their Duty; or else if it be long, and frequently return, quite tire and are faint. So that Take it up daily, is as much as, Let Patience have its perfect Work. James 1. 4. If day after day we must be troubled, we must be content to be troubled. If God send it daily, we must take it up daily. Well then, in the New Covenant ⟨p. 326⟩we undertook this: the New Covenant doth comprise this as a clear branch and part of it. Christ telleth us the worst at first; the Devil showeth us the Bait, but hideth the Hook. The World useth to invite its Followers with promises of Honour and Riches; but Christ telleth us of the Cross, and that partly to discourage Hypocrites, who cheapen and taste, but will not buy; and also to prepare sound Believers for the Nature and Temper of his Kingdom, which lieth in another World. But here by the way we are to undergo several Trials, and therefore we should be armed with a mind to endure them, whether they come or no▪ God never intended […] should be […]

Some promise fair, to be contented with a naked Christ, tho they run all Hazards, because they hope God will not take them at their Words; but as soon as the Cross cometh, wriggle, shift, and distinguish themselves out of their Duty; or else if it be long, and frequently return, quite tire and are faint. So that Take it up daily, is as much as, Let Patience have its perfect Work. Iames 1. 4. If day after day we must be troubled, we must be content to be troubled. If God send it daily, we must take it up daily. Well then, in the New Covenant ⟨p. 326⟩we undertook this: the New Covenant doth comprize this as a clear branch and part of it. Christ telleth us the worst at first; the Devil sheweth us the Bait, but hideth the Hook. The World useth to invite its Followers with promises of Honour and Riches; but Christ telleth us of the Cross, and that partly to discourage H•pocrites, who cheapen and taste, but will not buy; and also to prepare sound Believers for the Nature and Temper of his Kingdom, which lieth in another World. But here by the way we are to undrgo several Trials, and therefore we should be armd with a mind to ndure them, whether they come or no God never intended should be