I have sowed, and you have reaped: and the day is
coming, when both he that sowed and they that reaped shall
rejoice together; that is, if you hold
out: for in due season ye shall reap, if ye faint not. The crown
is before you, and it is an incorruptible one; so run, that you
may obtain it. Some there be that set out for this crown, and,
after they have gone far for it, another comes in, and takes it
from them: hold fast, therefore, that you have; let no man take
your crown. You are not yet out of the gun-shot of the devil;
you have not resisted unto blood, striving against sin; let the
kingdom be always before you, and believe steadfastly concerning
things that are invisible. Let nothing that is on this side the
other world get within you; and, above all, look well to your
own hearts, and to the lusts thereof, for they are deceitful
above all things, and desperately wicked; set your faces like a
flint; you have all power in heaven and earth on your side.
Chr. Then Christian thanked him for his exhortation; but told
him, withal, that they would have him speak further to them for
their help the rest of the way, and the rather, for that they
well knew that he was a prophet, and could tell them of things
that might happen unto them, and also how they might resist and
overcome them.
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