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[ 1610] The Crown of Perseverance.

S. Chrysostome makes mention of the Women of Corinth,* 1.1 who had a custome to set up lights or tapers at the birth of every child, with proper names, and look what name the taper bare which lasted longest in the burning, they trans∣ferd that name to the Child; But the Lord doth put up a perpetual burning lamp to be as a Monument, for all those that shall persevere in well-doing to the end; It is not enough to begin in the spirit, and end in the flesh, It is not for him that runneth, but for him that runneth so, that runneth to the end, that persevereth,* 1.2 that the Crown is reserved; It is he that shall eat of the hidden Manna, he that shall have the white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no Man knoweth, saving he that receiveth it, Rev. 2. 17.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Homil. in 1 Cor. 4. Dan. Price Serm. at Spit∣tle, 1617.
• * 1.2

  Non p••gnanti sed vincenti corona. Augustin.