A ·> .. , ' ' ·, • ·!Pre.t.4.re• . {Joh.l6.u._ . ' .. }~,. ' . f. 'TheSaints exultations amid the flames) that it wasmore tha manifefr both to Heavenand Earth, to·Men and to Angels) that their caufe was the caufe of God, their murtherer that rn~ofjiJJne; their bloudthe feed ofthe Church,their futUes the jewels of Hea· ven; andtheir prefentpaffitge the right and ready ,way to-that unfading an,d'mofr glorious, Crowne ofMartyrdome. That which in fifrion was fathe~ red upon father eampwn, was mofr true ofevery one ofour Martyrs~ that every man might {ay with .heavieheart that frood by;Here fpeaks aSaint,here: dies a Lambe, here flowes the guHdeffe bloud• Thus you have heard· what counterfeit com-– ·forts, what ·f-alfe caufes, and'' fandy foundations, ;th~rem~ybeofboldheffe, confidence and cheere: · fulneff'e in miferies, afflictions and .difireffes. But the comfort which in thefe cafes tprings from a· . fOund and faving faith, .is eve(,true and fure, of a foberand f:inCI:ifiedtemperJ enlivedwith theholy wa.rmth of the light of Heaven, mingled with a true tafreofeverlafring pleaft1res, fuppliedconti– .nuallywith frefh frreames,from the bottomles and· 'boundleffe Sea ofall andendleffecomforts. It is 'not enforced, formall, artifidall, furious, defpc– rate, mifgrounded, ambitious, in the face onely~ .or for, afpirt, fnch may be found in reprobates. It were nothing worth if ftrangers might meddle ·with it; if men, or devils, or the whole world ' ,could take it from us : If it were fi1frained onely ·by any created power,; or arme of fleth~~ This :pearle, this jewell, is of anhigherpriCe, and more .;noble.· fiampe, than ,the ftate of:unregeneration · · an
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