The saints dignity and duty· Together with the danger of ignorance and hardness. /…The saints dignitie and dutie· Together with the danger of ignorance and hardnesse. /…

Look again to the fifth note and step of Abraham's faith, and try your selves a little by that. Are you content to run any hazard for the cause of God? To spare nothing from him? As Abraham withheld not Isaac from God when he ⟨p. 183⟩required him, so are you contented likewise to with hold, no, not the dearest thing you have when God calls for it. If the Lord put you to the trial, to undergo trouble, loss of goods, imprisonment, banishment, are you content to stoop to these things? to give way and to break through all impediments? Judge your selves: If it be so, it is well. But let your consciences speak, nay, let your lives and conversations speak; Do they not show the contrary? Doth not the very name of danger, the sight of it a afar off, the voice of some great man dash all your forwardness out of countenance? Nay, if an Isaac come and complain, that those and those things must be provided for, and cry out, Alas, if you take this course, what will become of wife and children and family, all must to ruin, you presently give over your profession. Did Abraham do thus? No, he did not so: and I beseech you, think of it; if you were the children of Abraham, you would not, you could not, you durst not do so.

Look again to the fifth note and step of Abrahams faith, and trie your selves a little by that. Are you content to run any hazard for the cause of God? To spare nothing from him? As Abraham withheld not Isaac from God when he ⟨p. 183⟩required him, so are you contented likewise to with hold, no, not the dearest thing you have when God calls for it. If the Lord put you to the tryall, to undergoe trouble, losse of goods, imprisonment, banishment, are you content to stoop to these things? to give way and to break through all impediments? Judge your selves: If it be so, it is well. But let your consciences speak, nay, let your lives and conversations speak; Doe they not shew the contrary? Doth not the very name of danger, the sight of it a afar off, the voice of some great man dash all your forwardnesse out of countenance? Nay, if an Isaac come and complain, that those and those things must be provided for, and cry out, Alas, if you take this course, what will become of wife and children and family, all must to ruine, you presently give over your profession. Did Abraham doe thus? No, he did not so: and I beseech you, thinke of it; if you were the children of Abraham, you would not, you could not, you durst not doe so.