That his honour was gone, I knew no glory could be everlasting on this miserable earth. 4. That his sentence was to dye, that is nothing, Nature hath given the like sentence both of my condemners and of me; Now should we get a stock of faith and learn how to use it, to live by it when our lands, our stocks, our trades, our friends, our wit, our shifts (as the ordinary means of our livelihood) shall fail us. That we may live not only above our fears, and troubles, and doubts, but above the world, above our selves, in God and in Christ, in whom we may see supply to all our wants, satisfaction to all our desires, and have recompense for all our losses, and every thing that may make for our good and welfare; light in our darkness, life in our death, strength in our weakness, riches in our poverty, and comfort our selves, that we serve a Master that will one day right all our wrongs, reckoning the injuries that be done to his, as done to himself; so that we should not think much to part with our Country, our Children, our Possessions, our life if the world will take them from us, for Christ and his Gospels sake. All these, and much better than these shall be restored to us one day, and we may say thus to our selves; yet I am not miserable so long as my Redeemer is happy, he lives, and I shall live with him, men may take from me my goods, but they cannot rob me of my grace, they may banish me from my Country, but not from Heaven, take from me my life, but not my happiness; no, my faith, my heaven, my soul, my happiness is in his keeping, that will safely preserve them for me, and me for them. But I fear I have held thee too long in the porch, I shall now open thee the door and let thee in, praying God to make those lessons as profitable to thee, as the Authors desire was they might both in his preaching them, and his willingness to have them published for public good.
That his honor was gone, I knew no glory could be everlasting on this miserable earth. 4. That his sentence was to dye, that is nothing, Nature hath given the like sentence both of my condemners and of me; Now should we get a stocke of faith and learn how to use it, to live by it when our lands, our stocks, our trades, our friends, our wit, our shifts (as the ordinary means of our livelihood) shall faile us. That we may live not onely above our fears, and troubles, and doubts, but above the world, above our selves, in God and in Christ, in whom vve may see supply to all our vvants, satisfaction to all our desires, and have recompense for all our losses, and every thing that may make for our good and welfare; light in our darknesse, life in our death, strength in our weaknesse, riches in our poverty, and comfort our selves, that we serve a Master that will one day right all our wrongs, reckoning the injuries that be done to his, as done to himselfe; so that we should not think much to part with our Country, our Children, our Possessions, our life if the world will take them from us, for Christ and his Gospels sake. All these, and much better than these shall be restored to us one day, and vve may say thus to our selves; yet I am not miserable so long as my Redeemer is happy, he lives, and I shall live vvith him, men may take from me my goods, but they cannot rob me of my grace, they may banish me from my Countrey, but not from Heaven, take from me my life, but not my happines; no, my faith, my heaven, my soul, my happines is in his keeping, that will safely preserve them for me, and me for them. But I fear I have held thee too long in the porch, I shall now open thee the door and let thee in, praying God to make those lessons as profitable to thee, as the Authors desire vvas they might both in his preaching them, and his vvillingnesse to have them published for publike good.
