Is it not a thing amazing, to see one poor inconsiderable man, in a
spirit of faith and patience, overcome all the threatenings,
cruelties, afflictions, and sorrows that a whole world can lay upon
him? None can quail him, none can crush him, none can bend down his
spirit; none can make him forsake what he has received of God, a
commandment to hold fast. His holy, harmless, and profitable
notions, because they are spiced with grace, yield to him more
comfort, joy, and peace; and do kindle in his soul a goodly fire of
love to and zeal for God that all the waters of the world shall
never be able to quench.
Now, a creation none can destroy but a creator, wherefore, here is
comfort. But again, God hath created us in Christ Jesus; that's
another thing. The sun is created in the heavens; the stars are
created in the heavens; the moon is created in the heavens. Who can
reach them, touch them, destroy them, but the Creator? Why, this is
the case of the saint, because he has to do with a Creator: he is
fastened to Christ, yea, is in him by an act of creation. So that
unless Christ and the creation of the Holy Ghost can be destroyed,
he is safe that is suffering according to the will of God, and that
hath committed the keeping of his soul to him in well-doing, as unto
a faithful Creator.
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