The Godly Man's Picture

2 How do sinners persevere in their sins, they are settled on their lees, Zeph. 1. 12. The judgements of God will not deter or remove them; they say to their sin, as Ruth to Naomi, Ruth 1. 16. Where thou goest, I will go, the Lord do so to me, and more, if ought but death part thee and me; so nothing shall part between men and their sins; Oh! what a shame is it, that the wicked should be fixed in evil, and we unfixed in good? that they should be more constant in the Devils service ⟨p. 310⟩than we are in Christs.

2 How do sinners persevere in their sins, they are setled on their lees, Zeph. 1. 12. The judgements of God will not deter or remove them; they say to their sin, as Ruth to Naomi, Ruth 1. 16. Where thou goest, I will go, the Lord do so to me, and more, if ought but death part thee and me; so nothing shall part between men and their sins; Oh! what a shame is it, that the wicked should be fixed in evil, and we unfixed in good? that they should be more constant in the Devils service ⟨p. 310⟩than we are in Christs.

3 Our perseverance in godliness, may be a means to confirm others; Cyprian's hearers followed him to the place of his suffering, and seeing his steadfastness in the faith,¹ cried out, Let us also dye with our holy Pastor, Phil. 4. 14. Many of the Brethren waxing confident by my Bonds, are much more bold to speak the Word. St. Paul's zeal and constancy, did animate the beholders; his Prison-chain made converts in Nero's Court; and two of those Converts were afterwards Martyrs, as History relates.