(ISl) 11lreadie laid him in the Duft; will not fear how low ~is E!lemies can lay hin1 ~ . . , :: : , 4· ~e peaceable ; your Preces &. .~adJr}me, will ~e your belt weapotls ~ the guilt ofyo~r unquiet an~ , unwarrantable refiiance, will \\{eaponyour hearts, , more than all your parta·kers will fhcngthen your hands·, Prov. 20. ~2. ·Say not, I willtecompenc; evil, 'J!ait on the Lord, and be will fave thee. Patient and p-eaceable fuffering, will be: the befi way . to abaf~ Jour Per[ecutGrs, an~ en1bolden your S~uls·. · I ,. ~ ' ' ' • Now gath~r up ~ll thefe Particulars, a~d you have the cqnverfation. that becotneth the Gofpel; wherein) that I may l~erfwade, ~s wei~ ~..s ~irea you~ ' ~onfider thefe followtng Argumenu; · . · w . , .. , • '., I • , ! ' 2• This is to thenl_,toyour Adver[~trits, an evident. to~n of Perjlition; this Ut~ited; humbJe, veaceable, unanin1ous boldnefs, in your holy courfe, whereby ).OU walk in th(! Spirit ~nd power ofthe Gofpd, and ·are not_frighted or terrified out ofit ; tl~is is, and will be toyour Perfecu.tors, an ~11ident ro/zen of Pcrdi– 'io~t. T he falls and flaws in the Livt:s of Saincs,a nd their ~~trrellings and Pi vifions atnongfi: chemfel ves, doft.~engthen the hands and the confidence. of fin- - ~ers a&ainfi them:The fears and faintings of Saints are the flulhings of finners ; when.Saints hang the wing, finners lift up the .head. . ·, The Majeftie,and }jeauci~ of an holy life, joined ~ith an humol~ a~d pati~n.t 'M;agna~i~ity ~n~ un~ ~aptedn~fs, wtll be a dart 111 the Liver of the E.t1c.. ·pJi~s ~f ~t. ~t is ~n ~'!!ident _t~en (to then} J of Per~i- - itvn . ' "'
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