5,1
q
wh t
perfecution is.
text there,
sd
ùyx,ne Po'vrs
it
perfecure that
which is
gooci.
And
in
the
1-2
IN:
14.
Follow Peace;
there's
the
fame
word
;.
1
Cor:
14.
1.
Follow
after
charity
;
there's the
.fame
word
there
too
;
It
figniies therefore
fo
to
follow
a
thing,
as
not to
leave
it
till
we have .gotten
t}'1
at
we would have
:
SO
the Apo
-
ftle:
ufes
it
in
the
3
Ph
:I:
14.
I
prep
towards
the
marl¿;
I
pore
fecute
the mark,
as
it were, that
is,
look
With
what eagernelfe
I did
ever
follow
the
Saints in
the perfecution
of
them,
-I
doe.
now
with the
fame
eág_rnef
e
prelle.
towards
the mark.A
that
hash an
ewer
fpirir dada
prelle
towards
a
thing
;
Now
as
it
is
applyed
in an
ill fence
:
Taking the meaning
of
ir,
To
follow the thing throughly.
Now
if
you
would know what
perfecution
is,
it
is
nothing but this
:-
A
pertinacious following
of
one
to
doe him
hurt,tending to
his
del
}ruolion
:
when
men
doe,follow eagerly a
bulinetfe
that
is
evil!,
and
follow
a
man or'woman in
a
thing
to
doe hurt
to
them,
and follow
them
eagerly,
and
refolve never
to
leave
till
-they have
got their
wills of
them
they
may be
aid
to
perfecute
thefe
men
;
For perfecution
is
not meerely to doe
a
man
hurt
;
There's a
difference between wronging
a
man, and
perfecu-
ting
a
man
;
they
may
doe them
wrong in fome one
a,
they
may
doe them
wrong accidentally
;'
But
now
perfecution
when intending-
to
follow
a
man or
woman in
`a
confiant way,
and refolve never
to
leave
them
until! they have had
their
wills
of
them
:
O bleifed
are
they that
are
perfecuted,
that'are fol-
.lowed
by
the world, thole that the perfecutors of the
world.
are fet upon, and
are
eager to doe
hurt
unto. This
is
for
Righ
teoufneífe
;
Ir
is
not the
punit}cnrent,butthe Caufe that
makes.
the
Martyr
;
Thofe
are
not
bleffed that are followed hard for
their
fin,
for their
wickednefle,
that
fuffer
for wickednetfe,,
that
fuffer for
evill;doers,for God would
not have
them fuffer
fo
;
Nó,
that's
a
part of
the Curfe
of God
Upon
them, that
as
they doe evil!,
fo
-they
Ìhould
infer
evils.
Now
the
`dines
that
are bleffed, they labour
to
be fo
farre from
fuffi
ring for
evilf
doing, that they
would
rather
fuffer
all
the
evil! in
,:he
world,
then doe the
lea
t:There,'sagreat
deale of difference
between
there.
two.
Bicf
ed