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Comfort to
thofe
that
are
poore
in
the
world.
but there
is
a
more hardnefs
in
thefe temptations
to
a
mans
nature, then
the
fins
that
riches
tempts to
,
which
is
to
fatisfie
our
lulls, and be
proud,and
haug;hty,and
fcornefull,
and
there's
more danger
in
that.
4:y,
You that are poore,
you have
not
fo
great
an
account
to give
as
the
rich men of
the world
have.
51y,
TheLord
bath revealed
in
the Scriptures that
he
hash
chofen
the
poore of
the
world
;
Though he hath chofen force
rich, yet
of
both, the
Lord
hath
pitcht
his
thoughts
to
all
eter-
nity
upon
the poore
of the world, to
choofe
them. In the
2
fain.
6. Hearken
my
Brethren
;
(It's
a
matter to be
hearkened
after,)Yhe
Lord
bath
cho
fen
the
poore
of the
world
to be
rich
in
Faith. ô
hearken-t6 this
you
poore
ones,
that
you
may
be
in-
couraged to hearken after
true
blef
ednefs.
6
v,
As
God--hath
put
his
choife
upon
the
poore
oldie
world
, fo
he hath appointed
his
Gofpel
,
efpecially
to
be
preacht to them.
In
the 14
Lake
21. Chrifl
fends
forth
his
fetvants
to
Call
in
the poore, the maimed, the halt, and
the
blind
;
Chrifi Invites them
:
and in
the
a a
Math.
S
To
the
poore is
the
Cof#el
preached. -Now
if
the Gofpel be appointed
to
be preached to the poore, then
Purely
it's appointed
to
be
preached to
this
Congregation,
and
ô
that
God
would
but give
thofe that are
such
mil
cable
poore people
ii
egard
f
out-
wards,
but
hearts
to
come
to
heare
the
preaétfiing
of the
Go-
fpel,
and
not to
'make any
excufes for want of
Cloaths,
or
this
or
the
other thing,
but to
come to heare the preaching of
the
Gofpel
;
For
you
are
Invited
, you
almes
people,
and
people
that
have
not bread to
fatis
e your hunget.withall, you
are Invited to
come
to partake
of
the.bread:of
life
you,
that
are not
Invited to
rich mens
Tables,
yet
God
bath
Invited
you
his
Table, to the
fupper
of
theLamb,
he bath
Invited
even
you
poore
to
come.
dry,
We
,End
in
Scripture, for an.Irnvardcall,
there
are
ve-
ry few
but
poore people
have
it.
r
Co
,
i.
26.
You
fee
your
Calling
Brethren,
how
that
not
many
wife
men
after
the
fie
,
not many m
ghty,
not Many noble
are
called
;
Bret
God
hath
cho
fen the foolz
h
things of the world
to
confound
the
w'fe,
and,
God'
bath