Ye would not go to heaven but with company, and ye may perceive that the way of those who went before you was through blood, suffering, and many afflictions; nay, Christ, the Captain, went in over the door-threshold of paradise, bleeding to death … Christ hath borne the whole complete cross, and His saints bear but bits and chips; as the apostle saith, “the remnants or leavings of the cross.”

S. Rutherford.