suffer, they may have nothing to bear but the single cross, without any pressure of guilt upon conscience to aggravate it. Again; it must be purged from the power of sin. Every lust is a Delilah, an exhauster, as the Hebrew word signifies; it takes away the heart, drains and debases the man, makes him vile and impotent, and by consequence altogether incapable of so heroical a thing as suffering for God is: he that hath sin reigning in his heart, will comply with it reigning in the world; he that