183. This is the true fortitude which Christ’s warrior has, who receives not the crown unless he strives lawfully. 2 Tim. ii. 5. Or does that call to fortitude seem to thee but a poor one: “Tribulation worketh patience, and patience, experience, and experience, hope”? Rom. v. 3, 4. See how many a contest there is, yet but one crown! That call none gives, but he who was strengthened in Christ Jesus, and whose flesh had no rest. Affliction on all sides, fighting without and fears within. 2 Cor. vii. 5. And though in dangers, in countless labours, in prisons, in deaths 2 Cor. xi. 24 ff.—he was not broken in spirit, but fought so as to become more powerful through his infirmities.