John Sprint, A Funeral Sermon Preached upon the Death of John Hoskyns, of Purse-Candle, in the County of Dorset, Esq. (1714), p. 11

Take Courage, Christians, the Captain of your Salvation hath trodden a Path through the mire of Sufferings even to the confines of Canaan, and you may trace his Footsteps through this dirty Way to the everlasting Kingdom…