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that
fod
hath inAfering
S.eiras to beperfecuted,
meerly in
refpe&
to me, faith he i The
lord
Chrifl
may
fay
fo,
he bath
thoufand thoufands
of
his Saints,
that if it
be
his
will
th.0
they
finall
go through
fire
and
water,
and
futfer the
Iofie
of
their goods,
liberties,
lives; they will do
it
:
Now the Lord
takes
a
great
deal
of delight in the
exercife of
the
grace
of
love, and
faith,
and
patience,
and
humility
:
Never
was
the
Church
more
fruitful, then
when
it
was
warred with
it's
own
blood, when
the
Church
was
as
a
Vine warred
with her
ovine
blood,
then it
grni
more
fruitfully,,
the Rofe
is
never
fo
fweet
upon the
fialk as
when
it
is
caft
into
the Stil,then
it
fmels
more
Tweet
then
it
loth
when
it
grows
in all
it's
beauty upon
the
butte:
The
exercife
of
grace
it
is
a
greater
good
then
the
in-
joymenc
of
any
comfort in this world'
O
that
we were
right-
ly
principled
in
this one
greatmyfiery
of
Ç:odlinefíe:
whether
do
you
account
the
exercife of
a
grace
to
be
a
greater
good un-
to
you,
then
the
injoyment of
a
world,
or
of
any
comforts
in
this
world
?
Oh
if
we
did,
we would not think
our
condition
tobe
fo hard when we are
under
affliecions
and
troubles, thou
thinkeli
it
a fine
and brave thing
to
live
at
eafe,
to
have thy
houfe and
fhop,and
comings
in,
and
cloaths,
and provifions for
thy family and
for
thy
children,
and leaving
great portions,
.
and
rich
matches,
and
thefe things are brave things
to the eye
of fletli
:
But
now canfi
thou account the exercife of
the grace
of
humility,
the
exercife,
of
the grace
of
faith,
of
the grace
of
patience,
to
be
a
greater
happineffe
to
thee,
then
the
injoy-
ment of
all
thefe
good things
?
Certainly
this,
were
an
argument
indeed
of
a
fpiritual
heart,,
of a heart
that
is acquainted with
the
wayes
of
God,
that
is infiru
&ed
from Heaven;
The
Lord
takes from
me
thefe outward com-
forts, refpe& and honour
and
efieem
in
the world,
and
my
efiate'and
liberty,
and
it
may
b,
layes
heavie things upon
my
body
too, but
I
blefle
his name
I
find
I'have
more exercife of
grace
them
ever
I
had
;
I
never
knew what
the
exercife
of
grace
was fo
as
me
thinks
I
find
it
now,
I
never
knew what
the
exercife
of
patience
and
humility was,
furely
if I
had
not
been brought
into this
low
eflate,
I
should never have had
the
exercife
of thefe
graces
;
and
I
blelf
e
God
I
fee more excel
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lency
if
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