5. The great trial of our love, consists in our regard to the saints
that are in distress,
6. It is the glory and honour of a church, the principal evidence
of its spiritual life, when it is diligent and abounds in those du-
ties of faith and love, which are attended with the greatest dif-
ficulties,
7. Our perseverance in faith and obedience, though it require our
duty and constancy therein, yet it depends not on them abso-
lutely, but on the righteousness of God in his promises,