Monday, January 21, 2008

Puritan Wisdom

On I Peter 4:13 --

"O how should this [the affliction of God's servants] not make us patient onely, but joyful in persecution: If we sow in tears, we shall reap in joy: If we suffer for Christ, we may rejoyce and be glad, for great is our reward in Heaven: If we forsake father, or mother, or house, or land, &c. for Christs sake, we shall have life everlasting: Is not this an happy change? This made the holy Servants of God set light by all they had, not that they were fools, and knew not what they did, or were senseless; no, the assurance of an eternal joy and inheritance in Heaven, swallowed up all, and so should it be with us."

-- John Rogers, 586.

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