i88 Bodilyhealth and cafe from tormems. membred only to encreafe your joy. When youarepat the brunt and fafe with Chrift,youwill never repent ofyour fuffe- rings on earth ; nor will it trouble you then to think of the shame or ficknefs or pain and torment that here you were put to undergo. Yet a little while and all wil be over. 7. In the mean time, confider alfo, that they are allDeferved I-offerings. You deferve them fromGod, though not fromman: Nay they are a thoufand fold lefs then your defervings : If free gracehave pardoned you the main,and refeued you from the torments ofHell, me thinks the remembranceof this won- derful! mercy, fhouldmake you patiently bear the fatherly chaftifements that tend to the perfeelingyour deliverance. 8. Andfo much the rather becaufe They areMiring"more &tinfoil to you, then thegreateft prof erity is to the world. When louhave fuffered for Chrift as much as your natures are able to bear,youneed not fear being loofers byhim : As he is en- gaged by promife to make you amends, and to give you the rewardof the inheritanceof glory, fo he is eafily able to ac- cornplifh it.' All the Saint-sof God are in the way toglory: but his suffering Saints are in the neerefi way. Alibis fervantsare onfpeAkakygainers by him : but his fufferers are in the moP thriving way : They fhall have an eminency of Reward or a Reward above the commonReward, Rev. 7.14. ET efe are they that come out of great tribulation , and have wafted their robes ani made them where in the bloodof the Lamb. Therefore are they before theThrone ofGodand(irve him day and night inhis Temple ,andhe that fitteth on the Throne 'hall dwell among them] The Churches therefore glory in their Martyrs, nd for the patience and faith of Chriftians in all the perfecutions and tribulations which they endure ; 4 exam:fell token ofthe righte- OM judgement of God, that they may be counted worthy ofthe Kingdom ofcod, for which they fuffir feeing it u a righteous thing with. God to recompenre tribulation to them that trouble them; and to them that are troubled, Reg with the Saints, Their. 4, 5, 6. Mat. 19.27, 28,29. Peter Paid beboldwebetveforlaken all and followed thee- ' what Aall we have therefore? And 7efus laid ONO thew, Verily Ifay ontoyou, thatye which have followed Inc in the Rese,neration,wken the Son ofwanAwl fit-is Throne
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