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Connexion
of
peace
-
making, and
perfecution,
former.
What,
Bleffed are
the
peace-makers; and,
Bleffed
are
the
persecuted
:
What
agreement
is
there between
there
two
?
or what connexion can
there be
;
For
if
a
man
be of
a
peaceable.
difpolition, who
will harme him
?
Why,
furely
they
will.efcape
perfecution
of
all
men.
It
may
be
there
are ioroe,
(
though
godly
)
yet
are
of
a
turbulent difpolition,
and
are
furiousand
hoc;
They
perhaps
may
be perfecuted
;
But will
the
peace-makers be
perfecuted
?
Will
chofe
that
in
the pla-
ces
whete they live
are
no occafion
of evill
to
apy
that they
live
among,
but
labour
to
doe
all
the good that
podìibly
they
can, and
yet (hall thefe be
perfecuted
?
--
Yes truly,
even
Thefe
if
they
be Godly , Thefe if
they
be righteous, Thefe
mutt
not think
to
efcape.
None that
are truly
Godly and
Righteous,
though they
be
of
the
moll
quiet
and
peaceable
difpofitions in
The
world,
they mutt not think
to
efcápe, and
therefore thefe two are joyned
together:Yea
this
blefíedneffe
that
followes upon
perfecution,
is
added to
all
the former,
To
note that
a
man
may
be
all
the former ,
and
yet
a
perfecuted
man
;
As
thus
;
A man
may
be of
a
very Poore and humble
fpi-.
rit,
and
yet perfecuted
; A.
man may
of
a
mournfull
fpirit,
mourne for
his own
fins,and for
the
fins
of others,and
yet
per-
fecuted
;
A man
may
be of
a
meek fpirit,
and
yet perfecuted
;
A man may
be
hungering and thirlling.
after
Righteoufnefíe
;
A
man may
be
a
merciful man,andyet
perfecuted
;
A
man
pure
in
heart, not
having
any
bate
ends
of
his owne, and
yet perfe-
cuted
,
yea
a
man may
be
a
peace-maker,
and
yet
perfecuted
Such
is
the wickednefle
of
the world , the
vileneffe
of
the
nature
of
man
, that there
is
nothing in
the world
can
keep
him from
perfecuting of the
Saints, though
they be
of
never
fuch
Poore, and
niournirig,and meek,
and
pure,
and
merciful!,
and
peaceable hearts
;
-
This
for
the
connexion.
Blefled are
they that
are
perfecuted;
Pain/Aver, the
word
Guru
tranflated
perfecuted,
coming of
d'wxo
;
It
lignif
es
the
follow
-
fugienten.
ing
of
a
thing hard,
a
hard
following
of
a
t
aing.It's
taken fome-
times
in a
good fence
:
The
fame
word that's here,
and
in
di-
vers
other Scriptures
is taken in
an
ill fence.;
It's
often taken
in
a
good.
a
7'hef
S.
x
5.
Follow
that
that
:is
good)
faith
the
V
u
u
text
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