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tinàiters
muff
fute
their
caufe
Chrìfl would fuite
himfelfe
to
his
prefent Àudiro:
y,
to thofe thathe
was now preaching
to;
this
was a
doctrine that
was
more futable
to
his
Difciples,becaufe they were
like
to
b;
.
motl offended with
poverty,
and with
their
afflieted
conditi-
ons in
which
they were
-like
to
be
put into,
and
therefore
Chrift
he
labours
to
helpe them
in
that
thing wherein their
chiefe
temptation
Was
like
to
lye,and
pitches rather
upon
this,
Filed
are the
poore
and
thofe
that
mourn,then
Netted
are
thole
that beleeve,
and
that
are
righteous.
It
is a
great part of the
skill
of
a
Mil-tiller
of
tieGefpel,
not
onely
to
preach things
that are
truths, but
to
labour
to fuite himfelfe
whatpo :fbly he
can
to
thofe
that
he
fpeaks
unto, that
he may fpeake
a
word
in due
feafon
to their
hearts,
fitted for their
condition, and
therefore
not
fo
much
to
labour
to
preach what
he
might
perhaps, wherein he might (hew more depth
and
excel-
lency of
his
ownparts,
but
what
it
is
that
may be
mot+
futable
for the condition
of
the people
that
he
is
fpeaking
to. Thefe
are the
Notes
briefly
from
the
generali, That Chrift beg
his
.
here with this kind of bleffednelfe,
Blefjed
are
the
Poore ;
It's
good
to
take Chrifls
judgement rather then
our
own about
blefìedneffe.
Rather
followwhat
the
bleffed
God
faith
blef-
fedneffe
contifls
in,
then
what
a
wretched
mïferable man
The
poore; they
are
the
dteffed.
That
is,
If
you
would' know what is
meant
by bleffedneffe
here, it's
this, they are
fuch
as
are
partakers
of
the chief good
that
it
was
made for,and
(hail certainly be filled with
all
good
that their
natures
are capable off, for
in this,
bieffedneffe con-
fills.
Now,
The
poore
in
fpìrit,
whatever they may
want
for the
prefent in
the creature, yet they
are now
made partakers
of
that
wherein the higheft good
of
man Both
confitl, and
flvall
certainly be
filled with
all
good whatfoever
that tl
it
foules
and bodges are capable
of, thefe
are bleffed.
The
poore-,
Btef
ed are the
poore
The Greeks
had
2
words
ro,
l?,gtiifie
apoore
man
;
Firtl,
wrr'xas
fuch
a
poor
man
as
is
detli
-.
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