John Trapp on Hebrews 12:4

Verſe 4. Ye have not yet reſiſted] q. d. You may do, and muſt look to do. And if you cannot endure words for Chriſt, how will you endure wounds? If you have runne with the footmen, and they have tired you, how can ye contend with horſes? Jer. 12.5.

Striving againſt ſinne] That is, Againſt ſinners that perſecute you, or the ſin that doth ſo eaſily beſet you, and ſollicite you to ſpare your ſelf, and rather to yeeld a little then to ſuffer ſo much. The Tabernacle was covered over with red (and the Purple-fathers tell us they take that habit for the ſame intent) to note that we muſt defend the truth even to the effuſion of bloud. If we cannot endure Martyrdome (if called thereunto) and ſweat a bloudy ſweat for Chriſts ſake, we cannot be comfortably aſſured that we are of his body. Chriſto ſubmittemus (ſaid that Dutch Martyr) ſexcenta ſi nobis eſſent colla. We will ſubmit to Chriſt, though we ſhould ſuffer never ſo many deaths for his ſake.Act. and Mon. fol. 1474. John Lea[illegible: 1 letter]e a young man, burnt with M. Bradford, hearing his own confeſſion, taken before the Biſhop, read unto him, in ſtead of a pen took a pin, and ſo pricking his hand, ſprinkled the bloud upon the ſaid bill of his Confeſſion, willing the Meſſenger to ſhew the Biſhop that he had ſealed the ſame bill with his bloud already. See the ſtory of Will. Pikes, Act. and Mon. 1853.