You therefore, whatsoever your temptations be, forsake not the doctrine which from the beginning of your Christianity you have received: to which if you firmly adhere, if you continue in the constant profession of the true faith of Christ at first revealed to you, you shall continue also in the favour and love of God the Father, and of Christ, which is reward sufficient for that constancy. And whatsoever hazard we run by so doing, it matters not, though it be to loss of life itself, because he hath promised eternal life to those that stick fast to him, though with the loss of this. And this have I said to arm you against the seducing Gnostics, &c. that are now among you, and are so solicitous to do so. And indeed I need give you no other armature against these, than what you have already: for the testimony of the Holy Ghost, and so of God himself, given to the truth of that gospel which hath been preached among you, is sufficient to fortify you, and that is still among you, and you have no further need of testimonies of that truth against all opposers and deceivers; only hold fast and persevere in that which you have formerly been infallibly taught by that means, (see ver. 20,) and let not these seducers yet work upon you.