That if God withholds the magistrates allowance and furtherance herein, they¹ yet proceed together in Christian covenant and communion thus to walk in the obedience of Christ even through the midst of all trials and afflictions, not accompting their goods, lands, wives, children, fathers, mothers, brethren, sisters, no nor their own lives dear unto them, so as they may finish their course with joy, remembering always that we ought² to obey God rather than man, and grounding³ upon the commandment, commission and promise of our Savior Christ, who as He has all power in heaven and in earth, so has also promised if they keep His commandments which He has given without limitation of time, place, magistrates allowance or disallowance, to be with them unto the end of the world and when they have finished their course and kept the faith, to give them the crown of righteousness which is laid up for all them that love His appearing.

1. Daniel 3:16–18; 6:7, 10, 22–24; Luke 14:26–27; 21:12-14; Acts 2:40–42; 4:19; 5:28–29, 41; 16:20ff.; 17:6–7; 20:23–24; Philippians 1:27–29; 1 Thessalonians 3:3; 2 Timothy 2:12; 3:12; Hebrews 10:32ff.; 1 Peter 4; Revelation 2:10, 25–26; 6:9; 12:11 ↩︎
2. Acts 5:29; 17:6–7 ↩︎
3. Matthew 28:19–20; 1 Timothy 6:13–16; 2 Timothy 4:7–8; Revelation 2:10; 14:12–13; 22:16–20 ↩︎