“My son, because thou knowest these things and hast read them all, blessed shalt thou be if thou doest them. ‘He who hath My commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me, and I will love him, and will manifest Myself to him,’ and I will make him to sit down with Me in My Father’s Kingdom.”
O Lord Jesu, as Thou hast said and promised, even so let it be unto me, and grant me to prove worthy. I have received the cross at Thy hand; I have carried it, and will carry it even unto death, as Thou hast laid it upon me. Truly the life of a truly devoted servant is a cross, but it leadeth to paradise. I have begun; I may not return back nor leave it.
Come, my brothers, let us together go forward. Jesus shall be with us. For Jesus’ sake have we taken up this cross, for Jesus’ sake let us persevere in the cross. He will be our helper, who was our Captain and Forerunner. Behold our King entereth in before us, and He will fight for us. Let us follow bravely, let no man fear terrors; let us be prepared to die bravely in battle, “and let us not so stain our honour,” as to fly from the cross.