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R. .
Epbefian.r,
then
all,
en
ftripes
above
meafere
,
in pr;fo is
more
'regatta,
in
deaths nft.
,,,,,rejoyce
intribulatiorn.
And
r
Pr.
4.
16.
¡for
fifer
esa
Chreffi
as,
let him
not
be
aJ1
med,
but let
hint
glorify Gadan this 6ehelfe.
So
of
temptations S.
fames
fpeaketh, lam.
I.
z
.
cont
italljoywiie»
ye
fall
into
divers
temptations.
For
fuffering
for
Chrift
is
in
it
Rife glorious
and a
..
gift
of
grace.
If
ye
be
reproached
far
the Name
of
G
/riff
, happy
aré
yte,
a
bec.4.14.
for
the
f
iris
of
glery,and
of
Gad,
reffeth
itpon yo
{t,
To you
it
O
given
,
not
Phi1.1.:9.
onely to
believe,
but
elf
eo
flier
for
his
Name.
Secondly, the perfon for whom wee
fuffer,
is
filch as
we
owe
our
felves
unto.
Paul
profeffeth
of
him
Mathis
holy
refolution,iîls
2
1.13.
tam
ready
not
enely
robe bound
bat
etlfo
to dye
at
lerufaleen
far
the Name
efthe Lordlefas.
Thirdly,
the
recompenceof
reward.
Heb.
it.
ag.
It
is
reported
of
cliofrs
he
chafe
rather
tofte
ffer afflic?ien
with
the
people
of
Geá
t
then
to
enjoy
thepleafitres
of
Pane
for
afeafon;
becaufe
he
had
refped
to
the
recom-
pense
of
reward.
For the
2.
Whether
all
afflictions muff
be
regoyced
in
2.
The
anfwer
is
made by
fomc,thatit
is
nor ro
be
looked
for,,
as
be-
fa.
ing a peculiar
gift
to
fome perfons:
arid
if
we frame our anfwer
to
that
When
and
in
w.hichisdone, not
to
that which
fhould
bee,,
it
is
true; for
Paul faith,
wharafeiei-
Oar
affidions
for
the
?repot
are
not
joyous:
and S.
Peter
tells us,
if
need
éjoy
eTeC
require
we
are
made heavy
with fundry
temptations. But
the
fcruple re- lieb...ar.
matneth,How faire
I
atn bound tò rejoyce
in aflietiions;
in,
what
af-
I Per
S;_
flidions
I
am
to
rejoyce,
in
what not.
The
anfwer
is
to
be made from
the ends
of
affliftions;
which
are chiefly
threefold.
z.
They
arc
to
give teffimony
to the truth,
2.
They
are
to try
us, and fo
prepare us for
good
things.
3.
They
are
to
comer
t
us.
.
Now
in
the former
we may
rejoyce,
yea it
is
our duty
to rejoyce.
Inthelatterwemuffmourne
and
bet
bumbled.
der.
5.3. God
corn
-
plaineth
of
this
as
bad behaviour
in
his people,
that
when
be
did
finite
them
they
grieved
not:Thou haft
con
fungi
d
them,bea
they
have
refrfed
to
re-
ceivecorreUien,
they
have made
their
faces harder
then
a
rocke.
It
being
a
forlorn
carriage
in
a
child
to
fmile under
the
hand
of
a
corro5ling
father.
Now
this
doth
reprove our foftneffe,
who
if
we
endure-but a more
Pfe 1,
harfll
terme, are ready
to
fit
downe with the
finger
in
the eye,
and
if
a-
ny tlifgrace
accompany this or that way
of
uprightneffe,we
are
flaame-
leffely
fhamefaced, a token
that
we
love the glory
of
men
more
then
the glory
ofGod,
and
that
we have
not
received
the
iirit
of
power,
leve,
andofa
found
heart.
a. Tim.
s.
7.
It
doth teach
us
how to thinks
of
reproaches,
injuries
or
[zerfecuti.
Yfa
1.
ons more fharpe,
which
befall
us
for righteoufnefi'e,
we muff
glory
them;
as
the Apoffle
is
notafhamed,
but
proud
of
his
chain,
fo muff
we. Souldiers will tell
of
the wounds; the (hot,
of
allthe
hard meafure
which they have
fuffered
from the hand
of
the
enemy
under
their
colours
:
So mutt wee efleerne it
as.
our chiefs
honour,
H
h
x
when