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Ends
that
God
hack in frsffeting
his Saints
to be
pertcúted.
and
tells
the King,
That
it's
Kot
for
the
ÍCings profit
to
fill
er
filch
men
:
And
it
is
a
rebellious
City,
and
ahvl.yes againf
Government.
Haman did llirre
up
the
King
against
the peo-
ple
of
the
'Jews, that
were the
onely
Church
of
God
then,
and upon
this
Ground, That
they were
againtl
Government
Not
meerely becaufe they
were the people
of
God
, he
did
not
ovine
them
fo,
but
they were
againtl
t,overnnae
r.
And
fo
you
(hall
find it all along, when
as
the Apoltle
Paul
fuffe
red,
it
was
not
for righteoufne{le,
but
he
was
a
pefli
lent
fellow,
a
mover
of
fedition
;
And
thefe did
twat
the
wo:
^ld
up';de
down,
and
they made
a
great deale'of ltirre
in
the world. And
in
the
Primitive
times,
why all
the troubles that were
abroad in
the
Countryes,
were ever charged
upon the Chriflians, and
under
that name they
futfered
as
being
the
Caufe
of
all
their
trou-
bles. And
many
doe
in this cafe, like
the
Heathens, when they
would fet
the
Doggs
upon
the Chriflians,they
would
put them
into
wild beafls-skinns,and
then theywould fet
the Doggs up-
on
themto tear them.
And this hard
ufage
the people
o
f
God
have
met
withall from
time to time
;
They
indeed delire
to
walke righteoufly
before
the
Lord
;
Now there
is fo
much
beauty
and excellency
in
the
wayes
of righteoufueffe,
that
men
dare
not perfecute under that
name
;
Therefore
they will
put
force
other
name upon
it,
and raife force nick-name and
¡lou-
der
upon
this
people,
and
under that
they
fall
upon them,
and
there they futfer.
So
that the
Saints may fuffer for
Righteouf-
neffe fake
.by
evill men,
and
yet
they
are
not
awar
of it.
Now force
thing
I
had thought
to
have fpoken
by
way
of
Con-
viaion,
to
convince
many
men
whole
hearts are
againll
the
people of
God
for righteoufneffe
fake
,
and
yet
they doe not
think
fo.
And though they plead
that it's
for
this
reafon
,
and
the
other, that they
are thus and
thus, yet it's
for
Righteouf-
neffe,that lies
at
the
bottome
;
and
it
would
be
a
good meaner
to reflraine
force
men,
if
not
a
meanes
to turne them
back,and
to
caule
them
to
begin
to bethink themfelves, were
they
but
convinced
that
it
were
for
Righteoufneffe
:
---But
this would
require more
time then
we
have
for the prefent,
and
there-
fore
we
fhall
let
ic
palfe.Z
z
z
.SERMON
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