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Poore
of this
world
Subjeas
of
the
kzngdonte
of
Heaven.
77
(the
Heir
of
this
kingdom)
it
was
to
take
away
the curfe
of
thy
poverty,
and
to
fandtifie thy
poverty, when
thou
hearefl
that
he
was
poore
in this world
why
?
thou
mayeíl exercise
thy
faith, Lord
this
was
to
fanclifie my
poverty,
when
as
indeed
otherwife poverty in
it
felfe
it
is
a
curfe
,
but
thofe
that
are
Godly
have
the
curfe taken
away
in
the poverty of Jefus
Chriíl
:
As
the Death
of
Jefus
Chrit+
did
fanCtioe
the
Death
of
the Godly.
The
fling
of
Death
is
taken
away
by
his
Death,
fo
their
poverty
,nci
all
their
affiäctions
are
fandified
by
what
poverty
and
aftierions that
Chriti
himfelfe
did indure,
and
therefore
in
this kingdome
you fee
what
comfort
and
good
there
is
to
you.
Thirdly,
This
kingdome
ofi
Haven
it
is fo
ordered cut
-for
the
mot+
part,that
the poor
in
the
world
are
the
fubjeas
of
this
kingdome
:
The
very confederation of this
is a
mighty helpe
to
thofe
that
are outwardly
poore,I confeile fometimes
there
are
force
rich men that
are Sub;edfs,
as
in
the
i
5.
Mark,43. An
honourable
Counfclonr
(there
it's
Paid)
waited
for
the
Ikngdore
of
God.
Great men
fomer Imes
are
but ordinarily it's the poore
that
are
the
Subjeels of this kingdome.
Then Fourthly, The Lord
hash fo
ordered
things
that
the
.
great
tranfactions
of this kingdome
of
Heaven
(that'
bath
been
os
ened unto you) bath
been carryed on
by
thole
that
are
mean
and
roore,
not
by
the great
ones
of the world
;
The Lord
Chrifl
h-tth
been very
little
beholding to
the great
ones
of
the
World
fertfiefurthering' of
his
kingdome.
ncefollowes therefore
in
the
fifth
f.lace,
That poverty
it
is
no hindrance
to the
highet+
degree
in
this kingdome of
Heaven,
indeed
'poverty
i
t
Is
a
hindrance
to degrees
in
the
honours
of
worldly kingdome,
a
poore
man cannot
expee}
to
beare great
Offices in
the
kingdomes
of
the world,
but
for
the
kingdome
of
heaven,
the
too
e
may,
the
r
ooreíl
that
iÿ
may
cone
to
as
high deg
as
the
richeft
that
it.
So
that
the
truth
is,
when you
cove
to
choofe
any
Officers
that
concerne
the
Church,
there
fhoo.old
be no confideration
of
mens
eflares
I
confeife when you come
to thoofe
Officers for
the State,
though
perhaps
a
poore
man
may
be
a
wifer
nun then
a
nanof
eí}ate