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the

pretences

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men

to

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not

lack,

faith

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art

aff

aiii thou

it alt

why

wilt

thou Ingage

God

to

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that thou

dialt

no:

wane

;

here's

a

Scripture

that

will Ingage

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to

thee, He thatgi-

veth

to

the

prore,

he/hall

not

want.

But

that

I

doe will quickly be forgotten,

let

me doe

never

fo'many good things, within

a

while

all's for

gotren,

for

his

look

into

the

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io

ver.

It

may

be thou

hail done

tiny

good

things

,

and

thou hall done

theni

in

fe,crer

, width

is

a

goód

figne

that thou doetl them

in

Faith,

and

feareft

they

will

be forgotten

;

No

,

God is

not

unrightesus

to

forget

year

waui(,

and

labour

of

love,

which ye

have

'hewed

towards

his

.name,

in

that

ye

have

minifired

to

the Saints,

and

doe

minifler. Mark

how

God

Ingages himfelfe

;

what

need

God

regard what

we

doe,

Can

we

doe

any

thing but

that that

we

have

from`God

before,

yet God

binds himfelfe

thus;

As.if he fhouldfay,

Art

thou

a

mercifull

man or woman

, doeft

thou

doe good

in

the

place

where thou

liver+,

I

ibould

bean

unrighteous

God if

I

forget

thee

:

Ged

is

not

unrighteous

to

forget

your fabour

of

love,

and

your worke

in

minillring

to the

Saints

Minifter to

the

Saints, and

God

will

not forget

your labour

of

love, he

is not

unrighteous

to doe

it

As

if

he were

t.0

ighteous,if

he

should

forget;

men

are

unrighteous towards

you, they in an,unrigh-

teous

manner doe

forget

what

you

doe for

them;but

God

will

not be

unrighteous

to

forget

.your

labour

of

love

in miniftring

to

the

Saints:

,

Very

few doe

any

thing this way, and

I

doe

as

much

as

o-

thers;

that

Scripture,

in

the

q.

Phil:

r

5.oro

ye

Phil.ppians

know `ifo

that

in

the

beginning of

the

GafJel, when

I

departed

from

ilfaced:aia,

ro Church Communicatedwith

me, as

concern

-

tug-

giving

and

receivirg

but

yee

onely :

Here

was

the

Commen-

dations

of the

Philippians

:

what

a

Condition

was

Paul in,that

though he

was filch an

Inftrument

of

Gods Glory,

yet

no

Church did

Communicate

to

his

necelities

but

only

the

Phi

-

¿Eppians;

This

is

a

high

Commendation, if God

gives

you

a

mercifull

heart

rather

then others

:

doe not

you account

it

a

great

mercy

aid

bleifirG

if

you grow

rich more then

-oth

.rs

;

Ce! tainly,