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I

z

Connexion

o

f

peace-making-

and

per

feeutiora,

And

then

laftly,Be

Inch

a

peace-maker

as

to love

the

peace,

and

that

onely

that

God

loves

and

deligliics

in

:

Your

father

loves

truth,

but

he loves

truth

and

peace

and holineffe

toge-

ther

;

Let there

not

be

any

thing

againit holineffe in

che main-

tenance of peace

:

God

would

not

have

any

of

his

children

commit

any fin

for

peace, to

fave

themfelves

from

trouble,

or

to.

fave

others from trouble

;

That they

may purchafe

their

owne peace,he would not

have

them

purchafe

it

with

fin

;

It's

true

;;

a

man cannot buy

peace

too deare,

except-

it

be

by

fin:

But

any

onefin

committed

for the

gaining

of

your owne peace,

or

the

peace of others

;

I

íay,in

that,

you

buyGold

roo

dean:.

This

is

not

the peace

-

making

that

becomes,

a

child

of

God,

but

bleffed

are they that are peace

-

makers, for they

thall

be

called the children of

God.

And

thus

much concerning

the 9th

verle. But

we

proceed

to

the

loth;

M

A T

H.

5.

io.

teffed

are

they which

are

perfecaated

fer

Righteoufneffe

fake, for

theirs

ù

thekingdom, ofheaven.

It's

a

ftrange kind

of

bleifing this roo,

as

the other were

Some

of

the other blefledneiles

feerne

to

be

ftrange,

as

the

firft, Bleiled are the

poore

,

and

they

that

mourne ,

that

they

fhould

be bleffed

;

and

now

theythat

are perfecuted;

Is it not

as flrange

that

they should

be

the'bleífed.,men

in

the

world

?

Chrift begins

with

the

poore,and

ends with the

perfecuted,

wheìa

he

would

(hew

who

are

the

mot+

bleffed

men in

the-world. my

Brethren,

fee whether the wifdome

of

Chrift,

be like the

wif-

dome ofthe

world,_

yea

or

no.

When

you

would describe

a

bleffed man, wo

?.ld

you

begin with

the

poore,

and

end

with

the

perfecuted :

O the

wifdome

of

Chrift,

it

is

not

according

to

the

wifdome of

the,

world

;

the thoughts

of

Ç:hrift

concernint

bleffednefle,

are

not

according

to

the

thoughts

of

the world.

rid theta

fecondly

;

This is

to

be wondered

at

that Chrift

timid

have

need to

(peak

of

the

bleffednefl'e

of

rhofe that

ate

perfecuted,

after

he had mentioned the

bleffedneffe of

the

lot-