Cloud of Witnesses
Phil i. 29. One of the witnesses for truth, when imprisoned for conscience sake in Queen Mary's persecution of the Church is said to have thus written to a friend—'A prisoner for Christ! What is this for a poor worm? Such honour have not all his saints. Both the degres which I took in the University have not set me so high, as the honour of becoming a prisoner of the Lord.' Philpot, again, could say of his prison–'In the judgement of the world we are in hell; but I find in it the sweet consolations of heaven.' So holy Bradford–'My prison is sweeter to me than any parlour, then any pleasusre I have had in all my life."
–cited from Charles Bridges Exposition of Psalm 119
Filed under Church History, Quotes, Reformation, The Puritan Way, affliction by on Jul 1st, 2009.






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