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why

righteoufneff

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expo

b

to

fuller.

5

3

fore

flew he

him

?

becaufe

his

ovine

work

were

evill,

and

his Bro-

thers

Righteous.

There

was

no

other

reafon why Cain

fell

upon

his

Brother, but becaute

his

works

were evill,

and

his

Brothers

Righteous.

It

was for

Righteoufneffe

fake

and

there's the

firft

perfecution

that

we

read of in

the

world.

Ile

name

but

another

Scripture

;

i

Ep:

of Pet:

2.

19.

For

this

is

th

s

wo

thy,

if

a

man

for

Con

f

cience

towards

God

enduregrie

e

fufering

wrongfully.

There

is

.a

fuffering

meerely

for Confcience

to-

wards

God

:

I

mall

need

name

no

more.

The

Reafons are

there.

Eir-f?

,

Becatife

that

righteoufneffe

it

felfe

,

it

is.

that that

loth

oppofe

the corruption

of mens

hearts, it's that

that

crol

des

men

in

the

wayes

6f

their corruption,

and

men

can

endure

much

in

any

thing but

onely againft

their

corruptions

,

againft

fome.finfull

dittempers

of

their

hearts

:

Righteoufneffe

in one

kind

oppofes one

mans

corruptions one way,and anorhers ano-

ther

way,

but

all

mens corruptions are oppofed by

righteouf-

nef e

:

As a

Godly

man can bare

ny

thing

men

b

n onely when

it

is

againft

righteoufneffe;

(for

fume

are

of

patient

and

quiet

fpirits)

but

onely

in

that

that

oppofes

their

Againe,

Righteoufnffetis

fuch

a

thinbthat

car

-

Secóndly

,

ain,

nall

hearts

fee

no reafon

for

:

They

fee

m

they

be

forward

dein

a

way

of profeflion

of

Righteoufnefle

fo

that

he the

z

u.

d.

-

(land

it,

it's

a

hidden thing to them

;

They

think,it ftrange

that

you

run

not

with them

to

the

fame

ex-

eeffe

of

riot

:

that

you

will not doe

as

they doe.

Thirdly,

Rightedufnelfe

condemns

the

world

;

As

it's

fail

of

Noah,

that

he condemned

the

world

;

were

it

not

for tome

men whole Righteoufneffe

is

raifed

up

to

a

higher pitch then

other

would

accounted

e

he

hen

there

are

ometha

e raifed

in

pro

eifionh

igher

t n

they.,

upon

this

th<y

-áte

condemned, even

in

their

own

Con-

fciences,they are cond

fo

otinpa

t;

t

of

that

Righteoufneffe

otes

that

doe

behold them

2

z

that