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The
Temptations
that
godly
poor
have.
that
thou
wouldit
hive
had fuch
grace
as
now
thou
haft,
fuch
manifettations
of God to
thy
foule
as
now thou haft, and
there-
fore
it's
well
with thee that
thou art
in
the kingdome
of
Hea-
vcn where
there
is fuch
communications
of
fuch fpirituall
riches.
And then
from
all
rhefe in
the Eigth
place followès,
that
hence the
great temptations that thole that
are
poor people
are troubled
withal!, may from
the
conideration of
the blef-
fing
of
the
Kingdome
be
taken
away.
What
are they
you
will
fay.
There
are
three great temptations
which
thofe
that
are
poor
people
and
are
godly have, the Devil!
comes againft
them
with
very
fore
Temptations, that
fuch as
have
effaces
are
not
fo
much
troubled
withal!.
As
Firft,
I
am
afraid that
God
goes
out
againft
me,
and
.
loth
not blefle nie in
any
thing that
I
go::
about,
and
ïb they
are afraid,
and
under great
bondage,
but
that
hath been an-
fwered already.
.
The
Second is,
I
am in
a
poore condition
and
therefore
de-
fpifed,
No,thou
arc
a
King, thou art
trantlated into the
King-
dome
of
his
dear
Son,
thou
haft
parr in
his
Kingdome, and
art
a
King
together
with hímfelfe. And
therefore
liften not
to
that
temptation
that rifes
from
contempt
and being
deipifed,
doth
not the
world regard
thee
?
the Lord
God
hath
a
high
refpeet
to thee,
for he hath given
thee
a
Kingdome.
And then
a
Third temptation
is,
They are
ufelefhe
in
the
world,
nay this
Text
will answer
that temptation, Thine
is
the
Kingdome,
and
as
you
heard
the Lord Chrif}doth
carrion
the
great defian
of
his
Kingdome
by
thofe that
are poore ,
and
therefore
be not troubled becaufe
of
thy
ufelefsneffe in
the
world
;
And that's the eight
fupport
of
thofe
that
are
outwardly poore
,
and
poore in fpirit futable
to their
outward
poverty.
The Ninth
is
this, That at laft,
tho'
e
that
are poor
and god
-
ly, yet they
íhàll
pofllefie
all
things, And I
fry!
Scripture
for
it
:
2
Rev.
7.
Let
men
thinke what they wül of
fuch an
aller-
tion
as
this,
yet
by comparing one thing with
another,
it
can
-
not
(peak
of
the
glory
that the
gall
be
ifi
the
higheff Heaven,
but