Saturday, January 19, 2008

Puritan Wisdom

On I Peter 4:13 --

"If we be so dealt with at any time [to suffer for Christ], we need not think hardly, but rejoyce, not think hardly: He was the glorious Son of God, we poor mortal Creatures, dust and ashes; He most holy and righteous, and perfectly pure, we miserable sinners, which though not at mens hands which wrong us, yet at Gods have deserved all evil, both here and in Hell. If we turn to our opprobrious sufferings here, and perpetual torments of Hell, into a few short glorious sufferings, we have no cause to think hardly; yea, having suffered all for us, we may well suffer for him, we can never lose hereby, nor can ever suffer to much for him, as he hath done for us; nay, not onely we must not think hardly at our sufferings, but we have cause to rejoyce, that we are advanced to be like our Master, made conformable to our head Christ Jesus: He is a bold Servant, that is not content to fare as his Master fares; Those Worthies that have gone before us, have accomplished it their honor, and a special favor that they have drunk of this Cup."

-- John Rogers, 585.

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