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Good to
be
informed about
true
dleffdneffe.
in
this when you
,ra
give
up
your names
to
aria;
That
what
-
foever
afliiòtions
and
miferies
you
indure
in
the world,
yet
there
is
a
happpineffe
wherein
you may
be
Wei
ed,
you will
ne-
ver
hold
on
in
the
profelion
of
Chriliian Religion
,
but
you will
be offended
and in
a
final!
time
calf
it
all
off.
Chriff doth not
fay, you
ought to
be
poore
in
fpirit,
it
is
.
your
duty
to
hunger and
thirfl,
and
to
bemeeke
:
No,
he
doth
not
come
that
way, But
6lef
ed
are
the
poore
in
fpirit,
and
blef-
fed are
they
that
hunger
and
thirfl
;
he goes
by
way
of com-
mendations
of
what
íhould
be
in
them, rather then
by
way
of
exhortation, or threatning the contrary.
From
whence
We
may
learne this
Note
:
That
it
is
a
very ufefull and pro`'itable way
for the Miniflers
of the
Gofpc1
to
leek
to
gain
people
to
the
love
of what
is
their
duty,by
Chewing
them
what
is
the excel-
lency and glory
of
it,
and
what good
and happineffe
they
naafi
come
to
enjoy
by
it,that's
the way,not altogether to be
meetly
in laying
the burden
of
a
duty,
in
exhorting
or
threatning for
want
of
the
duty,
though
there
things are
feafonable
in
their
times, but
a
main
thing
that
Minilfers
of
the
Gofpel
hculd
ayme
at
should
be
to
convince
people
that
in what
is
required
of
them
there
is
á
bleffednefle,
for
if
we
should
get
people
to
fet
upon
duty meetly
upon
nece(lìty
,
becaufe they
mull be
done,
this
would
do
but
little
good,
and
they would be ready
to
fall
off from
what
they
doe But now
if
we can gaine
peo-
ple not
onely
to do
what
God
requires, but tp
be
in
love
with
what
God requires, that they
may
fee
there
is an
excellency
in
it,that they
may fee
they
are blefled
by
it,
we then
gain
their
hearts to the duty
and
to
Chril+
for
ever.
And yet there
is
one
note more, from this
fcope
of
Chia
in
his
bletfednefie:
That
Chriíf
Both
not
here begin
his
Sermon thus,
Bleffed are thofe
that
do believe in
me,and that
áre
.godly
and
righteous;why dorh
not
Chriff
fpeak
of
bleifed-
nefle
that
way
in general], óf righteous
men, of beleevers, of
Saints,
but thole
that
are
poore,
thofe
that
hunger
and
theif+,
thofe
that
niourne, they.are
the
bleffed-
ones;
Why
this
is
be-
lv
caufe