Puritan Wisdom

On I Peter 4:1 –

"To mortify our corrupt nature is called suffering in the flesh; and the truth is, its hard to say, whether it is harder to suffer bodily torments and pains, or to mortify a mans lusts: O it’s a death to part with them; yes, when a man after long strife between the grace of God and his corrupt nature, in the work of his conversion grace prevails, its even as the pangs of death; as when the Devil went out of the childe, he threw him down, and he lay foaming as if he had been dead; O its not so easy a matter as the blinde and profane world imagine"

– John Rogers, 522.