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thy
honours,
or
to
thy
brutifh lulls,
a
fervant
of
fervants
art thou.
Fourthly, They
are,
fuch things as
God
in
his
ordinary
ad-
minifiration of providence
hath
denied to the
choked of
his
fervants,
fpecially in
the
times
of
the Gofpel
:
Many
of
the
choice
of
his
fervants
in
former
times
were
in
very
low
and mean conditi6ns; but
for the times
of the
Gofpel,
how
did
Chrifl
himfelf,
who was
the
S6n
of
God,
live
?
hee
had
not a
bole
to
hide his head
in;;
The fowls
of
the
air
had
neg.,
and
the Foxes
had
holes,
but
the fox
of
man,
net
whereon to
lay
his head.
Jefus
ChM,
that
was,
infinitely beloved
of
the
Father
;
and all the Apoflles,
they
were
in
a
poor
mean
condition, every one of
them died
a
violent
death,
but
one.
.ly 7ohn.;
wee have records
of
their feveräl forts
of
deaths
force crucified,
force
Honed, and fonie
other
kinds
of death,
but
all
put to death,
fave John,
and read but the
latter
end
of the eleventh
ofthe
Hebrews,
Thole
that
the world
was not
worthy
of, how
they
wandered
asp
and
down,
,1
fhcep-
skins, arid
goat-
skins,
and
dens,
and
caves
of
the
earth. That
was a
little
before
Chrifis
time,
bee
fpeaks
of
thofe in
the
time of
the
Macchabes:Now
certainly,
if
God
hath fo
ordered
Thing,
in
his
general adminiflrations,
towards fuch
as
are moll
dear
in
his
eyes,
as
to
deny
them
thefe ;things,
that
they
(hall
-have
but little
of
them, there
is
no-
:Teat
matter
in them
,
furely if
there were
any
great matter
in them,
.God
would
not
deny
them
to
his
fervants
;.
when a wicked rich
man
look upon
a
poor man
that
walks humbly before
God;
and
would
not commit the
leaf+
fin
willingly
for
a
worlds.
meethinks
fuch a
man
fhould
think
thus, Oh Lord
!
what
a
difference
is
there between
fuch
;a
poor
:
man and
I,
and
yet
my confcience
tells
mee, that God bath more
honour
from
him
in
one day, than hee hath
from mee
in
all
my
life
;
furely
there
is
no
fuch
great
matter
in
the
things
of
the
world,
that
God
hath
denied them him
:
If
there were
any
great
matter in
them,
certainly
fuch
as
walk moll humbly
with God, and moll
dole
with
God, fhould
have
them
if
they were abfolutely good.
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--
And
indeed,
thisis
one
great
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