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Comfort
to-
thofe'that are
poor
in the
world.
people
that lives
upon
the
earth,
ô
thefe are
dreadful'
objeas
to
look
upon, like
to bemiferable
here,-and
to be
miférable
to
all
eternity hereafter
;
fuch
poore
as
thefe,
you
mutt not
thinke
that
becaufe you are miserable
here, therefore
you have your
hell
here,
and "hall
not be miferable
hereafter
;
ô
no
;
If
you
can
Lead,
you
may
readin
the Epilfle
of
jade,
where the
Apo-
file
fpeaks
of
fome
that
were Confumed with fire from hea-
ven,
and
yet were fent
downe
to
eternali
fire afterwards
fo
'
thereare
fome
that the Lord kith
forfaken
in
this
world,
and
are
like
to
be forfaken
to-all
eternity
in
the world to
core.
But
you
will
fay,
This
is Little
Comfort to the poore
é
little
Comfort, Are there
any
here that
would
have
Comfort
?
Is
it
the word
that
you
doe.
expecI
Comfort
from
?
If
there
be,..
any
poore
that
loth
but
defire to
have
Comfort from the
word
:
I would
lie
loath
to let
this
pals
without adding
fome-
thing
;
Therefore that
you
may
not
be difcouraged
in your
poverty.
You
may have this
Comfort
from
the word,
(Blefred are
the
poore,) For, ñrff,you
Poore
ones have
as
precious
foules
as
the
greateff
Monarks
of the
earth';
your
foules' are
as
much
worth,
and capable
o as
much
glory,
as
the
seat
Empe-
rours,
Kings,
and
Qeens
of
the
world
;
and
that
s
fomewhat.
21y,
You
p
"
re,
may have
as
free
access
to God,
and hea-
ven
is as
open
t7tou
as
to
any
of
the
greater+
Potentates of the
world:
There
is
as
great
a
1
o:lïbiltry,
(if
yòu have
hearts
to
looke after
it,)
for you
to
have
a
Crown
ofGlory
the
higher}
heavens,
as
for
the
greater+
Monarch
that
lives upon
the
earth;
and
that's
fomewhat
to
you.
3.Y,
Let
me
"fay,
That not
only you
are
as
neere,
but
in
fome refpe&s
neerer to eternal'
bleffednefs
(If
you
be
not
wicked
and
ungodly, and
have
but hearts
to
looke
after
bief
fednefs,
you may
more likely attaine
to
bleffednefs) then the
Great
ones
of
the
world For your temptations
are
not
fo
great
as,
theirs;
Indeed the
temptations
of poverty
are
great,
but the
evills
that
other temptations would
draw the
heart
too,
are
things more
pleafng to
nature, then
the temptations
of
poverty ;.poverty tempts
to
difpaire,
and
to
II-lifting
courfes,
but