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Toting

ones fhost

/d

feke

after

the

kìngdonse

of

Heaven,

yI

.poor

e

in

this world that they might be partakers

of

the king

-

dome

of

(-leaven

:

And therefore it

is

a

great

incouragemenc

to

the.

Miniflers

of

the

Gofpel to

preach the

kingdom:.

of

Hea-

ven

to

Congregations that

have many

poore,

and

I

t

vould

ro

Cod

that the poore of this Congregation might

be

go: to hear

of

the bleflings

of

the kiñgdome of Heaven, I should

have

as

great

hopes

to

doe good

to

this place

as

in any

place

in

the

kingdome

if

the poore

in this place might be

brought to heare

the

ofpel,

for the very

Golpel it

felfe

is

call'd the

sin

;dome

of

rieaven,becaufe

it

loth

reveale the great

things

of

the king-

dome

of

the Me

lìas

:

Therefore

you

that

are poore

and

Dior

come,

be

incouraged

to come,

and

doe

you

incourage

all

your

poore neighbours

and

friends,

and

tell

them that

dough

they

be

never

fo

poore,

yet

if

their

fpirits be

poore,and

humble ac-

cording to

their

poverty,:

he

kingdom.

of Heaven

is

open for

then

likewife,

and

tell them

what

you

have

heard

of

the king-

dome of

Heaven out

of the Go:p

.l,

what bleffed things

there

are

there;

and

then there

may

be

a

great

deal of hope that

trod

intends to

Hog

many in this

Congregation to this

his

bleffed

king-dome

:

The

preaching

of

the Corner

is

compared

to the

calling of

a

Net,

and

is

is compar'ed

to

it

under

this

Title,

The

i

gdome

of

Heaven.

We

have

a

great

Sea

here to

cart

in,

but thofe peo-

ple that

I

would

moll

gladly

Can

the net

upon,

I

am atI

:aid fel=

dome do come within the conic

affe

ofthe

Net, I

me

me

the

poorer+ and

meanefl.

O

you

d'rty:

are rich,aitd

3.

e

men

in

place,

take

fome

courfe

to bring

in

the

poore

that

the;

may come

into

this

Net

that

when we

cone

to

can

the

Net,

that is, the

preaching

of the

Go_pcl,

that

that

may

be

x

the

.kingr':ome

of

Heaven to them

And

you

that

are young ones,

doe

you

hearken after

the

things of the

ki

gdorwa

of

Heaven,and

aske

queflions about

it

when

you

come

home,

aske

your

Parents

and

Governours,

what's the meaning of that

of

the kingdome

of

Heaven,

that

poore peo

le

may come

to

be

made Kin

:

:s

and

Priefis unto

Cod:

And the rather

have

we

incouragement to

fpeak.to young

ones,

that they

fliould be

enquiring,

becaufe we

f

nd that

as

Na_

foon