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SERMON
XXXIV.
alt
Principles
for
fuering,
M
A
T
H.
5. 'II).
Bleffed are they
which
are
pérfecuted
for
Righteoufneffe
fake, for
theirs ix
the king-
dom
e
of
heaven.
(hall
not
Tooke
backe
to
any thing, there
are
thefe
things
further
in
the Text.
Fìrf+
I
!hall indeavour
to
give
into
you
fome
prin-
ciples
for fuffering,
that is,fome
co'nfiderati-
ÿy;:
ons
that
may
help the
people
of
God to
be
c:3
%C
,:,.
willing
& able
to
fuffer
for
righteoufijes
fake.
Secondly,We
(hall
open
the
bleffedneffe
of
this,4vhat
a bleffed
thing
it
is
to
fuffer for trghteoufneffe fake.
Thirdly
conclude
the
verfe with
fome
Application.
For
the Firft then, to
lay down fome fuffering
principles,
That
is,f
©me
coxfiderations whereby
the people'of God
maybe
fitted,and prepared
for fufferings
;for
we know
not
what
God
may call us
to;
&
there's
none
but
in fome
degree
or other,are
fome
time
or
other call'd to fufferings,(Imean.that
are
godly)
Wherefore
the-firlfprineiple to
finable
chriflians
to fuller
for
righteoufoeis
is,that
we
!Mould
look on
our
felvs
as
fent in-
to
the
world for this
end,efpecialVto
beawitnes
to the truth.
that's the
firft principle;as
a
great
end for
which
we were
born,
for
wch
we
live,that we
might
be witnef
e'
of God to
his
truth
Surely