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Why
God
lets his
Saints
he
oa
ed.
r6r
thren, they
are
thole
that
are neare
to
us
, they are
the
Saints
of God.
And confider Secondly,
We
hive the roote
of the
matter
in
our selves
:
why
canft
thou
thin:{
in
thy confcience that fuc.i
men
ihouldbe
in fuch
an
atliieted
.eftate and
thou
ihouldit
feele
nothing thy
felie,
thou
thouidit
have,
all
things about
thee
as
ever
l'sthere
any
reason
why fuch
excellent
Saints
of
Goal,
that
have
done
God
io
much cervice in
their
generation
thouid
be call our of houfe
and
home,
and thou
fhould'It fet at
thy.
.
Table
ío
full,
and have thy
wife and
children
about
thee,,
and
thy
houle
fo
furnitht,and
all
at
peace,
what
reason
can
there
lie
given,
is
there not
as
much
in thee
to provoke
God.,
as
.
in
them:
haft
thou done more fervice
for
God
,then
they :
O
if
thou
hadit not
the
heart
of
an
Adamant,
it
would
breake
thee.
But
there
i;
another
that is
Yet
more. Confider the
dilho-
nour'that God
hath
by the
of
aie
ions
of
his people
:
The
,rush
is, The
Lord
fullers in
their
fuffering,
.
in
all their
aft-lions
he
is
a
lieted,
the
morethe
Churches goe
down,
the more
doe
the
wicked
in
illt
and
trium
2h,
the more
do-h-
wickednelfe
prevaile
:
O
this
ihorld
goe
to
thy
heart,
God
goes
downe,
(
as
I may
fay)
and his
cave
goes
down
in
the
Saints
going
down
;
The
glory
of Cod
is
inwrapt in the good
of
the Saints,
and he
luffers
in
it.
You will
fay
now,
If
God
fuffers,
whywill
he
let
the
Saints
b,.
fo affli&ed.
To
that
I
anfwer
:
The Lord
will
let
them
be
affliaed
for
the
di covery
of
thofe who are
true,
and
f
ilfe
:
and
indeed he
cloth
raife
to
himfelfe
a
glorious name many
way::s
:
But
yet
though
the Lord doth
raife
to
himfelfe
a
na
n
of
p
life
by
the
fufferings
of
the
Saints,yer we mufti-mu
n
r.
!
r:..
n-.,bec
vfe
in
the
moire-time
God
c'o h
1
ff
r,
and
dh
a
much
to his
dii1
onour, althoughhe
by his
in.:nite
pow.:r can
fetch honour
out
of
them.
And'befides,
if
you
cony
der
onl
r
this
:
The
g
eatne
<%
of
the
evills
that
is
in
thefe
dayes
:
If
eve'there
wee
'a
rime
to
mourn::
for
the
affli&ions of
oïhers,
now
is
the
time,
and
thole
y
that