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into
the
condition
of the
afflicted.
with
God;
and had we
not
peace with our own confciences,
what (hould we do?
but
blef
ed
be
the
name
of
God,
that we
have
kept
our peace with
God,
and
we
have
peace
in
our own
confciences;
In
thefe
dayes
of
warre
it's
this
onely
that
com-
forts
their hearts, they prize it
nnw
:
therefo:e put
your
felves
into their
conditions
that
ybu may
Lame
tor
rize
peace
with
God,
and
peace
in
your
confcience.
And then
the
feventh
and laft
thing
of
all
is
this,
it
we.píit
our
felves
into
their condition, certainly
you
would
rife
up.a
gainft Popery ánd Tyranny
:
Suppof
you
were in Ireland, and
there
were
under
that
heavy tyranny
of
chore
barbarous
Papi(ls
that
are
there
:.
why
would
not thi
;
make
you
to
rife
againll:
thofe
that
are
Popish;
and
to
think thus
;:
Is
this the
Pos,-
it
Religion,
O bloody
Religion,
what wickedneife would
that
Religion
countenance,
a
turf
ed
Religion
is
Popery;you
would
be ready
to
charge your
children
to
hate
Popery
as
long
as
they
liv'd,
ô
the cruel
ufage
of
people
that
have
been
there
:
--
And
fo
the
Popish party
that
have
prevailed here ihould
make all
torife
agaitt(l-
Popery;
and foagainft Tyranny,
what
a
miîerable condition
is a
people
in
where
a
few,
men"
(hall
Ty-
ranize
over
them;
Olet
us
joyn what
pofiìbly
we
can,
to
call
off
the
yoke
of
Tyrar;ny.,that we
maybe Govern
'd
by Law,
and
know
aforehand when
it
is
that we doe
offend
:
Certainly
the
miferies
that
have
been of late
in
thefe
three
kingdonies,
can-
not but flirre up the fpirits
of
thole
in
the
kingdome
that are
not
fottifh
and
willing
to be
Raves
to
rife
againft Tyranny and
never
fuifer
it
to
prevaile over them
again,
by
putting our
felves into
their
conditions we may
c^nae
to
have our
hearts
affeeted in
fome
n
eafure
as
their
hearts are, and thus we (hall'
be
fenfible
in a
right
way
of
the mournefull-éflate
of
our
bre-
thren.
And
to that end, that
we
may
be
fenfible
of
the
nlournefudt.
elate
of
our
brethren,it's
good for
us
often
to
charge our felves
with the great evill
of afelfi(h fpirit,
what becaufe
I
am
free
my
felfe,
and
feefe nothing
my
felfe,
(hall none
ofthe
affli&i
--
ans
of
all
the
Churches of
God,
and
the
fufferings'
of
all
the
(,ountryes,
come
neer
to
-m
y
heart,, 6
bafe
felfiíh fpirit
that
I
have;;
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