The Godly Man's Picture

10. A godly man will suffer persecution;¹ he will be married to Christ, though he settle no other Jointure upon him but the Cross; he suffers out of^† choice, and with a spirit of gallantry. Argerius wrote a Letter to his friend, dated, From the pleasant Garden of the Leonine prison. The blessed Martyrs, who put on the whole Armour of God, did by their courage blunt the edge of Persecution. The Juniper Tree makes the coolest shadow, and the hottest coal: So Persecution makes the coal of love hotter, and the shadow of death cooler.

10. A godly man will suffer persecution;¹ he will be married to Christ, though he settle no other Joynture upon him but the Cross; he suffers out of^† choice, and with a spirit of gallantry. Argerius wrote a Letter to his friend, dated, From the pleasant Garden of the Leonine prison. The blessed Martyrs, who put on the whole Armour of God, did by their courage blunt the edge of Persecution. The Juniper Tree makes the coolest shadow, and the hottest coal: So Persecution makes the coal of love hotter, and the shadow of death cooler.

1. 110 Duty.
2. †Heb. 11. 35.

Thus a godly man goes round the whole Circle of Religious Duties, and obeys God in what ever he commands. ⟨p. 249⟩[Greek or Hebrew].¹