I I Jt8 ·g ·heSaints Jure ' ' 4 1 A fou~th confideration,_whereby the true Chri-_' Affiietions are .fiian ·ma¥.be kept in heart and comfort againfi all :bin~:~,ngc · cr?ffe~ an? ~alurriniation_s which bee fh~ll m~ete ' wtth,m lus comfe ofholmeffe and fanthficatwn, is thjs : It is no firange thing that doth befall llho Soiou \ have;> gone before us•. him,when he is perfccmed for Gnceritie; but_the very beaten way to-Heaven, trodden by all fuch - feet, as ever walked in faith and obedience• .Abel begun in this Cup of Pcrfecution,and vexation, for his fervice to God, to all thofe who would . give their Names to Chrifi, or fight under his . Banner to the w ·mtds end. The Patriarkes and I Prephets, and ho.ly men of old, foliowed and Htb,I~< 36,_}7· 1 pledged him : They were tryed by mockin,gs and · fcourgings-, by bonds and imprifonment; they were fto– ncd, th~y were hc1ren.afunder, they n1ere tempted 1 they rvere_(latnew-ith the Jh·ord ;. theywa.ndered up a-ndd:mme tn Shcepes-sk'ins,.and Goats-skins, bein,~ deffitute, af– fiill~d, ttnd tormented' ; whom the 1-P().r/d- W;.tS' not trOf– ,thie of; they rMnlered: in wilderneJTes, and D·ennes,_ And Ca1)CJ of the Earth-. Nay, Chrill: lefits him– fdfc,the Sor1ne of God, andourbleffed Saviour, clmnke dcepe and Iarg~ of this Cup; it-was the · Ba-ptifme wher€with be was baptized. H'is Apo- - files and l':)ifciples followed'; tl1ey endured aU : the bl0udieand mercile[e cruelties, which fierce - and fmious VVolves arc wont to- inflitt~ ~rpon filly~, , and liarmcle~ Sbecpc ~- for they were ft·nt om- . into. the Wo-rld, as St1eepe amongft Wo·lves .._: ·: TheJ:e come after, arid d'rinRe of tha fame Cup,., ;milliotls ofble!fcd m~n and women, under-the . ·~· l?rimitive P.e.rfccutions,:; Of w.IH<!h ,_,,fome ~-er~ · ; - fGaJded~ :1
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