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V
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R
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6.
8phefianf,
Chap.z.
229
that
which
I am
not, nor
cannot be willing with.
We
fee inour
out.
ward
affaires
an
outlandifh man,
a
forrainer, cannot
have inheritance
in
our land,
umill he
be naturalized.
The
fonne
of
a
traytor whole
landes
are
confifcate,cannot inheritthem,as before,
until! his
blood be
reftored
; fo it
is
with
us, wee are all
orangers
by
nature
to God
,
and
heaven
where he dwelleth,we
are
a
tainted blood
, rebells from
the
wombe,
and fo till
God
reflore us, and make
us
fit,
we cannot have
part
in
this heavenly inheritance.
This one Prerogative
(
that
we
are
madeto
fit
in
heavenly
places)
du-
ly
confidered reproveth the mifdemeanour
of
the
wicked in
regard
of
their
poore
brethren: For
come
in
place
where they
are,
like
og
king
of
Bafbian,
they
fet up
their
briftles againfl
them,
and efleem
them
as
the bafe
off
=fcourings
oftheearth, and
refufe
of
the people. For what
fay
they
t
I
fcorne
thee that thou
fhouldefl control!
me,
a
chiefe man
of
the towne where I dwell,and
(hall
I
be taken upwith every begger?
Alaff
!
thou art
the turfed begger
in
the rich
mans
weede
;
this man
whom
thou thus difdaineft
is
the
right
heire,
thou
haftgotten
his
right,
and
that thou
!halt
know when the Lord
of
thewhole earth
(hall
call
thee
out of
his
ground, throwing thy
body intothe earth
as
a
(finking
carrión,
and
thy
foul
into hell:
Then
(halt
thou
know
the
(late
of
all
things turned
upfide
downe,
and
then thou which before waft
a
Lord
on
earth and
feared
among Princes,
!halt now be
a
flave
in
hell,and the
poore creature which feared the
Lord,
proving-his-title before
the
throne of
the Lamb,and
(howing his evidence
it!'
Chrift,
(hall
be made
heire
of
all,and
fit
downe with Abraham, ifaac, and
laceb,
in
the
king
-
dome
of
heaven.
A
ftrong comfort
agáinft
all
crolfes and tribulations
:
to
thinke one
slay
we
(hall
to the utter flitting
of
all
incredulity, and unbeleefe, and
cheering
of
our languifhing fpirits,
fee
God
face
to face,
and
behold
his living fpoufe
to
our everla
(ling
comfort.
Now
while
we are in
thefe
bodies
of
clay,
we are
likerhe
moone being
eclipfed
;
but when
once
wee
!hall
put
off
this
mortality,
as
the
livery
which
Adam
giveth
to
all his
children,then
(hall
we be
as
glorious
as
the
funne in his
ftrength.
Poverty,
di(honor, deformitie,and
all
the
outcries
of
this
hofpitall
of
the
body
(hall
be left
behind,
like
unto
Elijahs
Cleake when
hee
was
caught
up
into heaven
;
and in ftead
thereof
all regali and
Kingly excel-
lency
put
upon us.
Nay
the
(lately Majefly
ofa
Prince
is
as
farre
diffe-
ring
from
the eftate
ofthe
worfi
of
Gods
Saimts,as
the
flare
of
a
bridge
begger
is
inferiour unto
the
greateftMona-ch
in
the
world: How doeth
this
crofl'e
the opinion
of
the world touching the
bafenes
of
the
Saints
This
mayferve
then
to
expell
all
feares. Feare
not
little
flocke,it is
your
Fathers
pleafure
to
give
you
a
kingdome.
We
are already feized
on
it,
we have
made entranceupon
it. Oh that
we did
but know our
ownehappines,we wouldnot
fo hang
the
head
as
dire=
fted
perfons,
but looke
up
to
that
incomparable weight
of
glory,runne
our race and
finifh
our courfe
with
joy,
yea and abide all
the
miferies
of
this
life
X
3
with
Wicked mens
difdaine
of
the
godly,fenf
leffe.
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a.
gain& prefent
bafenelfe
and
contempt.
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