...Be ye followers of God as dear children. CXLIV. folio-wing Christ. Matt. xvi. 24. Jesus said, if any man will come after me, let him take up his cross and follow me. John xii. 26. John viii. 1 2. He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness. x. 27. My sheep hear...

...must enter into the kingdom of God." " I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction." " He that will come after me, let him take up his cross and follow me." I knew that I had none of these exercises, and therefore concluded all was not right with me ; that...

...order to give it mortal wounds. The advice we give to the persecuted, is that of Jesus Christ ; If any man will come after me, let him take up his cross, and follow me, Matt. xvi. 24. Come out of Babylon, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive...

...and done by these two fundamental maxims of our Lord, " Without me ye can ' do nothing: and, If any man will come after me, let him take up his cross and follow me." The facts I allow, but not the consequence. In Theologia Germanica, I remember something of Christ...

...against His cross involved offence against their own : — " Then said Jesus unto His disciples, If any man will come after me, let him take up his cross and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it, and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall...

...are often mightily ashamed of their own when adversity comes; but our Lord's words are : ' Whosoever will come after me, let him take up his cross and follow me ' (Mark viii. 34). His cross, my friend, not ' the cross of Christ." He who bore that cross literally...

...who is the way, and the truth, and the life. Listen to the great Captain of our salvation; " If any man will come after me, let him take up his cross and follow me." " Ye must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of GOD." " In the world ye shall have tribulation;...

...as fortitude to the soldier; that our Lord has expressly enjoined it upon his disciples, — "If any man will come after me, let him take up his cross and follow me;" and that his true disciples have faithfully obeyed this injunction: — "I keep under my body," says...

...too. Thus then has he written it to all who would be with him that they may behold his glory: "If any man will come after me let him take up his cross and follow me." And if any man have ears let him hear what is thus directed,. Dot only to the churches, but to all...

...But Olympia had to learn the truth of all Christ's words, of that word too which saith, " Whosoever will come after me, let him take up his cross, and follow me." Christ never deceived his followers by flattering expectations. She was living in a brilliant court,...