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42. _
·Grace A!Jott-Hding.
·
:
not be dealt
with
thus
wickedly
·by
the
world
I fllould want one fign -of a
Saint,
and Child
of
God.
Bleifed are
you
(fa
id
the
·Lord Jefus)–
~hen
men jhaO
revile
you,
and
per[tcNte
yo.u,~nd
..
• fhaO
[AY
a/[ mAnNer
of ev# of you
Jt~./fcly
fQr
my_(~ke,
rejoyce and
be
exceeding gla-d for
greAt
is
your
rewArd in He11vcn ;for
jo
perflcr4t-td
they
the
Prophets
which
were
before
J'U~
Mttt.
S·
1,.
3
t
1.
'Thefe
things
therefore upon mine
own
account
trouble
me not,
no, tho11gh
tbey
were
twenty -- times
more then
they
are, I
have
a
good
Confciepce,
and whereas
they ·
fpeak
evil
of me, as aB e\'il
doer,
they
!hall be afha-·
med that
fal.fely
accufe
my
good
Converfation
in
Chrift.
'
·
' ·
_ 312.
So
then :what
fhall I
fay ·
to thofe that
have
thus
befpatt~red
me,fhall I
threaten thrm?'
Shall I
chide then1
?
!hall I
flatter
them?
fhall
] entreat them
to
h~ld
their
tongues
?
no
not
l, were
it
not for that
thefe things
n1ake
them-
ripe for
damnation
that are
the
Au
thars
and Abettors,
I would
fay
unto
them ;
Report
,
·
it?
Beczufe
?twin
increafe
n1yGlory.
, ·31
3·
Therefo-re
l bind thefe
lies
and
flan- ·
ders to me
as an ornan1ent,
it
belongs to
my
Chriftian Profe.ffion, · to be vilifycd,
flande·
red,reproached,
and
reviled;and fince a!l
this
is nothing elfe, as
~y
God and
my
·Confctence–
do bear
m·e
witne11 :I
rejoyce
in
reproa~h•
fQr Chrifts fake.
·
3
•4·
l
a.lfocalling
all tbofe
fools or knaves
that
have tbus
made it
aoy thiug
ot
their bu–
" ·fillefs .