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ChrifIs
poverty
á
fopport
to
the godly
poore.
world.
Now the
Confideration that
the
King himfelfe
is in.a
poore Condition,
and bath no
better
fupplyes and
Comfort
then
we have
;
It
is
a
very great fupportment.
As now in
an
Army,if
the General(
!Mould
fay
to
his
Souldiers
to
Incourage
them,
Goe
on,,you have
nothing
to
drink
but
water,
I
but
you
have
as
good
to
drinke
as
your
Gen
call
:
So
Chrift
may
well
fay,
you
that-are
poore
in
fpirit,
what
aré you
dejeéted
be-
caufe
of yaurpoverty,why
are you
poorer then
I
was;
It
may
be
you have
a
poore houle
you know
what's faid
of Chrift
;
_The.
Foxes
have
holes,
and
the
birds
have
flees,
but the San
of
man
bath
not whereon
to
hide
his
head
.
Chrift
had no houle at
all, Chrift
had
not
fo
good
a
houle
as
you-have
, that
was
the
great
King
of
Heaven and Earth
:
For your
diet,
that
feemes to be poore
and
meane,
you have
not
thole
full difi es
that others
have. In
the
21
Job.
5
v,
Chrifl
comes
to
his
Dif:
ciplés
and
faith,
Children
have
ye
any
meate
;
He
Both
not
fay,
have
you inch
and
filch
kind
of
dillies, but
have you any thing
:
yeaand this
was
after
his
Refurrè&
}ion, after
h::.
had made
an
end of
filtering
for
fin.
O remember
that Scripture,Chrifl
was
Content
with
anything;
have
you any
meare, faith
Chill.
Cor. 8.
y.
H
e
was
made
pore),
faith
the
tc
t
,
that
he
rrs
ght
make
Ud
rich. There
was
never
a
Godly
man
that
we read of,
was
in
a
poorer Condition thenChrift
was,
in
many
reipe6ts
:
Now
he
that
was
your King
,
and
is
your King, he fub-
;e6ted
himfelfe into
filch a
poore condition
;
be
Comforted
in
this,
yours
is
the
l&gclorne of
Heaven,
If
you
underftood
what
the
kingdome ofHeaven meaner,
who
is
the
King
of
this
kingdome,
and
Confidered that
his eflate, was
fo
poore,
It
i7,ould take away your
murmuring
thoughto againfl
a
poore
ef;ate.
My
kngdome
is
not
of th
s
world, faith
Chrift
;
There-
fore what though
you have
not the Riches of
this
world,Chrift
himfelfe had
them
not.
But fecondly, Confider
this, Chrills
poverty
it
was
to
fan
etifie
your
poverty
(meerely
to
Confider that
our
Captaine.
or King,
fuffer-s
as
well
as
we, that's
âomewhat,but
no
poverty
or
filtering of
a-King
orCaptaine,
can take away
the curie
of
the
fiifferings
of
his
fubje..s :1 but the
poverty of
Jefus
Chrift
(the-