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9f Chrifr,pmuft
ex
pea
párj
cyttion,
That
concerns
a
worldly
matt,
her
fe.fhall
fpend
his
dayes
in
w.:alth,though
in
a
moment
he goes down
to the
grave,but the
Godly, hemuít
through
many
tribulations enter hito
the
king-
don
of
Heaven. You
rind
that Peter
dar'd
not
pray
againft
all
perfecutions
for the
Saints;
t Peter
5.
t
o.But(f
tith
he)the
God of-
all grace
who
hath
called
ats
into his
eternal
glory
61Chrtfi
Pius,
rafter
that
ye
have
fuffered
a
while,
make,
ye
perfefE,
flablifh,
fir
engthen,
fettle
you.
The
God of
all
grace,. though
lie
had
in
his
prayer
to
deal with the
God of all
grace, yet
he would not
pray
fo
much
as
that they íhould
be prefently
eltablifhed, but
after they
had
futfered
awhile, then
to
make
them
-perfect
:
As
if
Peter thor:ld
fay,
I
know
the mind
ofChrift,and
Gods
coon-
fels concerning
all
thofe
that
will
profefre
the
truth: that
while
they
are
going
on
towards
perfeion
they
mutt
fuffer
'hard things,
and therefore
though
God
be the
God
of
all grace,
I
dare
not fo
rauchas
pray
that
they
fhould
be
made
per
fed
without
any
fu
f
er-
ings
at all. But
after
ye have fuffered
a
while
theta
to
make.,
you
perfe
&.
It's
very obferveable
if
you
read
the
Sto
°y
of
the
leaven Churches in the Book of the Revelation,which''ou
have
in the
2.
and
3.Chapters of that
Book,you (hall find
that there
were buttwo of
all thofe
leaven Churches of
which
there's
but
little
fpoken
concerning
their fufferingsrbut of the
other
five
there
is much
Paid,
and
which
are thofe two that
there
is fo
little
fpoken
of
their
fuffering.
If
you
examine
the
Scripture,.
you
Thai
find
firít the Church of
Sardis
and
then the
Church
of
Laoidocea.The Church
of
Sardis
read what's laid of
thát,it
was
-a
Church that the
Holy
Ghoftfaith,Iknow
thy
works, thou
haft
a
?name
that
thoua
liveft
and
art
dead.
And
the Church of
Laidocea,It
was a
luke -warm
Church, Ch:
3,
rv.
So
then,
6e-
cau
ft
thou
art
luke-
warm,and neither
cold
nor
hot,
I
willfpew thee
out
of
my
mouth
:
Thofe two Churches they were the worn
of
all,
the
feaven,and
yet
thole two
you
read
had
Idle
fufferings
then the other
:
I,
they
would efcape
better
then the
refs.
Thole
that
had
a
name
to live
and were.
dead;
and thofe
that
were Lake-warm, they
would efcape
fuffering
of
perfecution
the
worfe men
ale that
profefs
Religion,
for the molt
part
they
efcape fufferings
more ,
and
the
more power
and
life of godli-
nefs.