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Hhy
they
that
hunger and
thirf
are
bleffed.
If
they lhall
accufe you
for
partiallicy
, or
wronging
others, it
may
be
fuch accufarions are upon
you,
why
atilt you
hunger
after the time
for
God
to cl_are up
righ_eoutneila.
There
is
nothing more
ordinary in the
world, then
for
the wic-
ked
of the
world to call
afperiïons upon
the
Saints
of
otr
i
or
force
evill
or
other to darken them
in
their
holy
profeqion,but
if
they bear what this
cart
upon
them patiently,
and
long
for
the
time
that the
righteous
God
will
appeare
to
manifeft their
righteoufneffe
,1lefJ'ed
are
you
whenyou
tlns
hunger
and
thinfl
even
after this
righteoufneie.
Blefed
are
you,
for
Firil,
You
have
the tettimony of
your owne
conTiexces
when men doe
accufe you.
Secondly,
You
have
the teflünony.of
God, God
witneffes
for you.
Thirdly,
Bleffed are you, for
God
is
working for you
all
thiswhile,
while
you lye
underthefe
acculations.
And
you
(hall be
fitistied
one day, you fhall
be
cleered,
God
will
cleere
your
righteoufneffe, and he will
make
it
break
forth
as
the
noon day.
Now
you
are
befpattered,
as
if Chrift
fhould
fay
you are
all
to be rmeered
with
áccufations from evil
men, but
you fhall,be cloathed with white linnen,
in
the
19.
Rev: 8. ver:
And
t9
her
(that
is,
to the Church)
was
granted,
that (he
(hould be arrayed
in fine h.nnen,cleaneand rvh'te,for
the
fine
linnen't.s
the
righteoufneffe
of Saints,
white linnen,
it's true,
it
is
the tighteoufneife of Chritt, but
it
may
have reference
ro
this righteouineffe that
I
am
fpeaking
of
:
as
if
fo,
be
that
a
Matronly
woman
being
in
the
ftreete,
fhould
have
mad
reople
call
dirt
upon
her,when (he
comes home
fhe
bath clean
linnen-
to,put
upon
her,
fo
though
the
Saints
here
are
befpatter'd
with
dirt
to
make
their
names
to
be
odious
in
the
world, yet
J
ius
Chrift bath
tine linnen
to ut
upon
them,
and
they
(hall'appear
righteous before
the
Saints
and
Angels, before
all the world`
another day,
and
fo
in
the
13
Matth: 4.
3.
ver:
there's
a
pro
mile,
That
the righte;sis ¡ball
one
day fh
ne
forth
ae
the
Sun,
:n
the
Kingdome
o
f
their
Father.
It's
'rue
they
(hall thine
forth
then
in
a
great deale
of
glory
put
upon
them,
but
this glo
v
of
their