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the Chief
of
Sin'ltets~
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rather
to Rebuke thofe that
did ; and
as
it
was
hi3
ConverfJtion, fo
it
is manifefl:ed
011
thofe
Book5
he has caus'd to
be
Publifhcd
to
the \Vorld :,
where like . the ..
~ ·eh-Angel
difputing with Satan,
about
the
Body
of ,
Mo{es,.
as we find
it
in the Epiftle of St
J-ude
brings Railing, Accufation; ( but leaves the
Rebt1kers , ,thofe that perfecuted ·
hi1n,)
to ·
the Lord.
In his Family) he , kept up ·a very ft riB: ,_
Difcipline, .in Prayer and Exho t tations,
be...
ing
in this
like
jojhua,
as that good '
MJn
Expreffes
it,
viz... Whatever others did
;
as.
for -me
and
rny,
Hot-t(e,
tl!C
will
ferve
the
Lord;
and indeed a Bleffing
w~ir~d
upnn
his
La–
bours and
Endeavours, fo
that his
Wife
as
the
P{almifl
fays,
W.ts like a pleafant Vi r; e
upon
the Walls
of
his Houfe., a-nd his Children l ,ke
olive
Branches round his
T,abl t-,
fo~ ·
fo
jhvt!l
it
be
w.
t1
the Man that fears the Lord,
and though
hy,
Re1fon of the many Loifes he Clitained
by
l1n
prifonment
anri
Sp')il
of
his ch.1rg J
ble
·Sicknefs;
fD'c.
his
EJ.rth[y
Treafures fweiled ·
. not to exce[" ; he
always
had fufficieat, to –
live deceutly and credibly; _and with
t hat
4~
he had t:he
gre1teft
of·aH Treafures, which
is
c~ntent;
for
as the Wife
~1Jn
f3.ys,
Tlutt
i s.
a
conti'ht-utl Fea[f.
But
where conteilt
dwells, even a poor Cottage is a
Kingly
Paiace; and this
Happiaefs
he had
all
his
Life long, not fo much
minding
this vVorld,
as -
~I!~~!og
he
Wal$
l1ere asia Pilgrim
and
..
~
i3
?tranger,