Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ

LET no such dishonour be reflected on the Gospel, that whereas the faith of it, and obedience unto it, are usually accompanied with outward Troubles, Afflictions, Persecution and Reproaches, as we are foretold they should be; that it doth not by its inward consolations and divine refreshments, outbalance all those evils which we may undergo upon the account of it. So to suppose, is expressly contrary to the promise of Christ himself who hath assured that even [Greek or Hebrew] even now in this life, in this world, distinct from eternal life; in the world to come, we shall receive an hundred-fold recompense for all that we can lose or suffer for his his sake, Mat. 10. 30. as also unto the experience of them who in all ages have taken joyfully the spoiling of their goods, as knowing in themselves (by the experience which they have of its first fruits) that they have in heaven a better and more abiding substance, Heb. 10. 29, 30. If we come short in a participation of these things, if we are strangers unto them, the blame is to be laid on our selves alone, as it shall be immediately declared.

LET no such dishonour be reflected on the Gospel, that whereas the faith of it, and obedience unto it, are usually accompanied with outward Troubles, Afflictions, Persecution and Reproaches, as we are foretold they should be; that it doth not by its inward consolations and divine refreshments, outballance all those evils which we may undergo upon the account of it. So to suppose, is expresly contrary to the promise of Christ himself who hath assured that even 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 even now in this life, in this world, distinct from eternal life; in the world to come, we shall receive an hundred-fold recompence for all that we can lose or suffer for his his sake, Mat. 10. 30. as also unto the experience of them who in all ages have taken joyfully the spoiling of their goods, as knowing in themselves (by the experience which they have of its first fruits) that they have in heaven a better and more abiding substance, Heb. 10. 29, 30. If we come short in a participation of these things, if we are strangers unto them, the blame is to be laid on our selves alone, as it shall be immediately declared.