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Preparations
for
f:tfJering.
of
;
It's
true
whatthz...
Prophet told
Hamad/
what he
fhould
doe,
that
he
iliould
be
thus and thus cruel
to
many,
why
faith
Hazeef to-the
Pr
ol.he
t,
i~s
thy
fervant
a
dcad d
gg,
that
1
fï,orrld
49
thee
!Virg.;
?
So
do
but tell men
before
they
come
to
have
power in
their hands, that
they
will make
the
dear Servants
of
God
to cry
to
ri
aven for
the burdens that they will
lay
upot'
them,
why
they would think it the
nïofi
uncharitable thing,
yea
theywould think in
their
own
hearts that they were
but
as
dead
doggs
if they ilíould
do
thefe things.
Truly
we cannot
deny,
but
muff
fay
that men
do
fuch
things
as
heretofore
they
themfelves would have thought they
allot
ld never
have
.done
;
flow
many
heretofore were
of dear and intimate ac-
nuaintanée one with another, that
did
ufe
to
unbofome
them
-
(elves
each
to o`her, that did
ufe
to
pray, and
t
alt
together, and
fled
tears
to;etirr,
groaning
under the perfe
union
that
wXS'
before,
and
yet
I
will
c.ot
fay
that they
are
conic to
fuch
a
height,
as
to
have
the
denomination
of
perfecutors, but do
not
foals.
begin
very fair,
to
be
very harfh and very hard
even
to-
wards
fuch
Brethren
as
were
as
'dear
as
their
own fouls,and fuch
as are
not
fallen
off
to be
tiro. fe
theta
they were, but their con-
fciences will
tell
them that they
keep,
as
clofe
to
God
as
ever,-
and
yet there
is
a
mighty alteration
in
their
fpirits
;
and
there-
fore
becaufe we do not
know
what
the depth
of evill
is
in
the
hearts
of
men,
therefore
we
have caufe
in
all
times
to prepare
for
this
perfecution,
there's
no
time that is
fo
peaceable,
and fo
ferenc,but
we.
have caufe
to
lay in,and
to prepare
for
fufferingsa
Therefore fet
down and reckon upon
it
when thou
b
ginneff
the
profellionofReligion,that
erf
cutions
will attend
thee
In the
22.
of
the
AíI
you
may
fee how
main
reckoned
upon
fur
erings
wvherefoever
he
carne
;
And therefore that
you
my
prepare,
I will
not enter
largely into
the
common
place of pre-
paring
for
fufferings,and carrying
of
our felves
under
fufferin,
But only in
a
few words
that
you may
prepare.
Firfi of
all,
you
that profeffe Religion,do not takeprofeffion
of
Religion,u
on
meer hear
-fay, or upon any
bie
ends,
or
ro
give
content
o
your
friends, no,
but when
yon
enter
upon
the
profetlion
of
Religions,
be
fure you
lay
a
good
foundation,knh
yyy
a
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