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elfe
doeappeare,
yet God
can give it peace
by turning
the
hearts
of
theft
that
arc
the
arch- enemies
of
it.
3.
That
Paul
fetteth downe this
his
condition
a
Prisoner
of
Chrift. Obi.
hence,
Doti.
?hat
the
eflate
of
the
faithfullfervants
of
God
is
fubjeCl to
perfecution
Gods faithful
for
Chrtfl his fake
:
Mat.'
0.16,17.2 Tim.3.11.they
muff not
look to be
Ifervanes
are
received
with the world
as if
they were her
own,but
to be intreated
as
ecu no
per-
fuch
whom
the world knoweth
not,acknowled'eth
not: So Chrift,his
Prophets,
his
Apofiles, they did
kiffe
the Prisons fometime,
and
fuller
violent outrage
at
the
hands
of
the
wicked:
neither
can
it
be
otherwife.
eafm
r.
For
the
Minifters of
Chrift
cannot
be plea
firs
ofmen,
Gal.r.
lo.
if
i
fhauld
ideatemen,
I
were not
the
fervant
of
Chrift. Pleafers
of
men in
indifferent things for
their good
and edification,
they
may;
pleafers
of
Rom:rq: _.
thenaturall
man in the way
of
his finfull
delight,
they cannot.
Let
e-
very
man plea
fe
his neighbour
inthat that
isgood
to
edification.
2.4.fou s.
A
fecond reafon, becaufe
that Christ
will bee
knowne not
to
bee
a
King after
the
manner of this
world: the Fávorites
of
great
Potentates
are
all
great Pcrfonages, Dukes, Marqueffes, Earles, &c.
But
Chrift
his
outward
favours are
imprifonments, ignominy, thefe
are
the
cloth
of
his
eft
ate
which
his
fervants weare
for
his
fake;
his dearest fervants.
Reafan
3.
Christ would havethem thus intreated
by the
world
,
fubjell
as
weake men to
all
their
violence, that the power which
fubdued the
world
to
God might
appeare
not
to be
of
them, but
of
God.
2.Cor.
4.
7.
We
have
this .treafure
in earthen ve
f
fells
that
the
excellency of
that
power
might
be
of
God,and
not
ofue.
Yfe.
This
therefore muff warne
us
both
Minifters and
other
as
in aglaffe
to take view
what
may be our
condition; we
muff
not dreame
of
Pa-
Ephtt6.
e;.
radife, but prepare
with the
preparation
ofthe
Gofpell
of
Peace,
with get-
A1au
;o.16.
ting
innocency
ofthe
dove,ferpent -like
wifdome
,
to
undergoe
affliEtion:
It
is
not
the
will
of
God,that
becaufe
our condition now trieth not
that
which theApoftles found,that therefore we
should put evill
far from
us,
that
we fhould fing
with the Prieft,Hic
regales
mea
, and fay
in
our
hearts, Our
mountain
(hall
not
be
shaken,
our cftate
(hall
not
bee ex-
changed.
4.
That
S.
Paul
Both
not blanch the matter or
Ihrinke
any whit
as
afhamed
of
this,eftate, but faith
boldly,
I
Fault-hat Prifoner
ofchrili,
it
doth
teach us; that
wee
muffnot
bee
ashamed
of
the things
weePuffer
for
Chrifl
but
rather
glory
in
them.
Of
this
three things.
1.
We
prove
it.
2.
We
anfwer this
queftion,Whether
all our
affliEtions muff
be
rejoyced in.
3.
What
use
we
are
to
make
of
it.
1
The
Scripture
is
plaine; it
is
faid
of the Apofiles after they
had been
e
&
beaten,
and shamefully
abufed,
They
departed
from
the pretence
of
the
s
5.4
t.
Councell, rejoycing
that
they were accounted worthy to
fu
f
fer thane for
his
name.
Of
this Paul
glorieth,
z
Cor.
I
t.
23.
In
labours more abundant
them
Doti.
We
mußnot
be
alharned
of
our
fufferings
for Quiff.,
bur
rather rejoyce
in
them.