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(Application
of the
pope,
Eons
good,
and
you may
manage your Caufe
well,
and
yet
fuf-
fer
for
all
that, And
therefore prepare for
fwurferings.
Fourthly , And then
lafy,
If
Righreoufnetie
muff
be
per_
fecuted, Let
thofe that profef
e
righteoufneffe,
take
heed
they
give
no
other
oceafion of
perfecution but
their
rfghteoufneffe
;
The
world will
lerfecute
you
doe
you
what you can, be
you
never
fo
Righteous,you
and
meere
with troubles
;
Therefore
feeing
you
mutt
meere
with oppofition
in
the
world,take heed
you
doe not
fuffer
as
evill doers
;
Let
not your
sufferings be
for
fuch
things
as
your
Confcier
ces fhall
tell
you you
have
not
done well
in
:0
the people
of
God
had
need
will(
very
exadt-
ly
in
the
mid'tt
of the world, for there
is
fomething-
they mull
fuller, Oh
let
them not add to
their
fufferings.
I
have
often
thought this, That
when
-íuch
as
are profaffors
ofReligion live
among men
that
are camall and wicked
,
becaufe they
mufk
keep
coniant
unto the principles
of
Religion,
and refolves
to
fuller for
them, therefore
they
had
need
of
all
other
things,
walk the
moll
inor cnfively
of any;
And
be
willing
to
be
the
fervants
of
"all
men
fo
farre
as
they
can
with
a
good confeience,
that
thereby they
may
declare that
when
they doe any
thi
kg:
in
way
of
oppofition
unto
thofe
that
they
live among,
it's
nothing
but
meerely Confcience
puts them
upon
it,
whereas now
if
men that
profelfe
"Religion have
afower
flubborne
fpir'it
in
things
that they
may
yeeld too,
then
when
they
out
of
Con
-
fcience
are put
upon
the:ttanding out
againfi chofe
that
they
live
withall
and
cannot
yeeld,yet
fuch as
they live
among will
jtirige,
that
the
realon
why
they
doe
not yeeld
,
it
is
not
out
of
Confcience,
but
flubbornneffe
:
And therefore
that
they
may convince
the
world
that
when
they
doe
ffand
to
anything
that
is
againfi
them, that it
is
not .out
of
aubbornneffe
,hut
méer.Iy
out of Confcience,and
it
concernes
all
theprofcflórs
of
'Religion
,
in
what
ever
they are able to yeeld to others,
tö
be willing
even to be fervants
to them,
and
to
be asplyable
ro
then
to doany
good unto
them;
And thereby
to
Conine
them, that
if
there
be
any
thing
wherein they doe not yeeld,
it
is
bécàúfe they
Cannot,
not
becaufe
they
Will
not.
But