A Christian Must Be Fitted To Suffer For Christ

When the heart is prepared for the worst sufferings, it is an
argument that your will is subdued to the will of God; for till this be
done, in a good measure, you cannot stand ready to suffer for him.
But now, to have the will subdued by grace to the will of God, is a
very choice and excellent frame indeed; for in this the main power of
grace lieth: Look in what faculty the chief residence and strength of
sin was, in the same chief residence the power of grace, after
conversion, is also