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What
duties
God
calls for
strength in fervice and doing for
God, if
your
hearts
were
af-
feeted
as
they
ought
to
be.
for
the Churches,
you would,
confi-
der
thus
:
How
do they
fuffer
in
their eflares,and
in
their
bo-
dyes
and
liberties
?
7
hey
are forced
to
fpend
their
ilrength
and
elates
itiaway
offufi'ering
:
why,'
Now Lord
thou
dot}
not
call
me
to
fpend
my
flrength
and
eflate
in
that
way,
of
fùf-
feting
as
thou callfilmy
brethren
to;
why
Lord
thoii
(lialt
have
ir'pent
for thee
in
a
way
of doing,
in
a
way
of'fervice:
ô 'tis
good for
us
to
have our firengrh and eftates
to be
fpent
for
God
in
the
exercife
of
our
graces, rather then to be
fpent
for
.
him in
the
fuffering
for ourítn,and
it
were
a
very
good
medita-
tion
when
you
.hear
of
any
that futfer
by
any
accident
whatio-
.
ever,
they
fuffer fo much for
God
in
a
paflive way
:
ô
then let
me
be
willing
to
fpend
in
an
active
way
for
God,
and
this
will
be
a
good argument that your hearts
are
fpirituai.
Fourthly,
Yea further,
When the
thankfulneffe
that
you
have for your being
delivered
from thofe heavy
affli
&ions
that
are
upon
others
ft
all
humble your
hearts
as
much
as
if
you
were
under the
fame afflictions
that others
are
under,
this were
a
good
fighe of
a
i
,irituall
Him,
, you
heare
of
the
Afflictions
of
other men,
why,
-now
wh;.n
}'ou
can be fo fenfible
of
thofe
af-
fiietions
fo
as
to
make
you
to
be
as
much humbled in
a way
of
xhankfulnelfe
as
you fl-ould be
if
you
were
under the
fame af-
fiiCtions,now
your
hearts
are
in
a
f
irituall
way fenfible
of their
condition
:
--
And
fo
much for
that
of
the
friritualnefle
of
our
beai'ts in being
fen'.ible
ofthe
afflictions
of
others.
But now in
the
fecond
¡,lace
;
What
duties
doth
the
confi-
,aeration
of the
affli&ons
of others
call fpr from,
:us,
when
we
bear that
others
are
in affliction, and we
Are
delivered, I
fay,
what duties
c?orh
this call for
at
our hands
?
'Now to
that
I
an-
fiver,
it
calls
for thefe
three.
An
abarement.of our outward comforts
in
this
would:
we-flóuld
be willing whenwe hear
how
the Churches
fuffer,
to
abate
of a,rear. part
of
our
outward comforts
that
we had
before
for
tl~e4iefli,
robe
willing
to
be cut
¡lot
ourfelves,ío
farre
as
we
n
gay
°co
it
in
a
way
of fervice
for
Cod.
Certainly
it
isnor
lawfull
for'ilien
in
fuch
times as thefe are, when there
is
fuch