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Reafons
why
ri1hteoufneffe
maiff
expel
to
Puffer.
that others doe
attain::
too
:
and
this they cannot beare,
but
their hearts fret
again(];,
Fourthly, Righteoufnefle
caufes
men
to
hold
to their prin-
ciples in
a
conilant
retied
way
how
ever times alter
;
let
times
alter
this
way
or
that
way,
Righteoufneffe if
it
be
ingrafted
in
the hearts of
men
and
women, it
will make
them
hold to
their
principles,
and
goe
on
in
their
way,
let
heaven
and
earth meet
together.
And the
truth is, there's
no
way
to keep from
fu£
ferings, but
to
have
fetch
principles
as may
bend this
way
or
that,
according
to
the times
;
Thofe
men
Ile
warrant
you will
keep
from fufferings. You
.have
men that are
very witty
to
find out ditfinctions,fo
as
they
can
fuit rhemfelves
to
all
times;
If
the times goe this
way,
they
can have
a
di[lin&ion
tafuit to
that
;
And
if
the times turne, they
have
a
diffinction
to
fuit
to
that;
And
if
they turne the
third time,they
have
a
diffin&ion
to
help them
there.
But
noW
if
Righteoufneffe prevaile
in
the
heart,
they keep on in
their
way
;
and becaufe
the
times doe
change up and
downe, they
muff
meet
with oppofition
:
The
wind doth not
oppofe
Weather
-
Cocks,
but
turnes them
ac-
cording to it
;But
now
if
you
fet
up
a
thing
that
will not
turne,
the
wind
bluffers
againff
that
,
if it
turne not
with
it
:
Now
Righteoufneffe
keeps
the heart in
a
fweet way towards
God,
let
the
wind
turne
which
Way
it
will,
and
therefore
muff
needs
have
the
wind come
blulfermg
againff
them;
They keep
dole
to their
principles, and the men of the world, they think
it's
nothing but
floutneffe
of their hearts
;
whereas
indeed
God
knows, and
their
own
Confciences know,
that
it
is
thófe
prin-
ciples of
Righteoufnefs
that
they
have
in
them that keep
their
hearts
fleady with
God
:
Therefore
they
muff fuffer.
Fifthly
,
Righteoufneffe
it
holds
forth
a
fpeciall
chime
of
Interelf
that
fome men
have
in
God more
then
others,and the
world
cannot
bear that.
But
now when
men
walk
in wayes
of
Righteoufnefle beyond others, this
holds forth unto the
world.
That
thofe
men do claime
a
fpeciall
Intereft
in
God
more then
others
;
And
this
makes
the world
fIorme at
it,,
and
therefore
Righreoufneffe
.muff
expert to
fufter.
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