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Principles
for
Hering,
lights for
God
then.to
enjoy them
for our
felves-:
Yea,
I
re-
Inember that
'Piny
in his
Epiffle Dedicatory
toVeffrat:an, he
fpeaks
of
a
Heathen,
Cato;
that did
profeffe he
did
more
re
-.
joyce
in
the eífare that
he
parted
withall for
juffice,,
that
he
would
not receive
in way
of bribes, then
he
did
in
what
efrate
he
did
injoy
liimfelfe,hallaHeathen
profeffe
to rejoyce
more
in what he
parts withall
for
the maintatnance
of
Juffice, then
in what
he
injoyed,and
shall
not
Chrif
funs
account
it
better
to-
part
with
any
thing
in way
Of
honouring
of
God
,.
and
doing,
lervicc
fer
him, then in
inoying
of
it
to themfelves
?
When
any
are called to
ïuffer, for
them to
look upon
what
they are
like
to part
wid-
-,
why
I
have
any
eftate,I
may live
comfortably,
and
flail
I
looCe
this now in this
way
?
Why
friend, do not
ac-
count
it loge
if
thou
doe(t part
with
it
for
God,
it's the
beff
parr
of thy
effate
:
If
a
man loofès
but
a
limb for
his
Country,
why
that
man
is
accounted more beautiful
in
that part
of
his
body
then
elfe where :I
remember
Ec.clefiaffical
Hiffories
tels
us
ofCónfiantine, when he came
in
the Counfel
and
faw
one
that
had
loft
his
eye for
the-
Profefiion of Religion,he
prefent-
ly
falls upon
him and
kiffes
that
place ,as accounting
that to
be-
0e
molt beautiful
place of
his
face,and
fo
certainly Chriflians
should account
it
fo, and
never
bleife
God
more
that
they.
have
an
of
tate
or
credit
and effeera and
liberty,
or
a
life, then
when they are call'd
to part
with there things for
God, I
am
now
a
happier
man
in
the
lot
}e
of there things for
God,
then'
ever
I
was
in my
life,
in
the injoyment of .them
:
But this
I
confeffe
is
a
miffery
and
a
riddle to
carnal
hearts,
only
thofe
that
are truly gracious and
Godly,
they
know what
this prin
ciple
means.
Thirdly, Whofoever
ruffers
any
thing'for God,in the
midfi
of
all
their
fufferings
they
are
in
a
better
cafe
then their perfe-
cutors.
As now,when
you
read
of
any
of the
Martyrs that were
called before
theirperfecutors,
they
came, in
all
them
b'avery,
and
fat
upon the Bench, and glif
}er
d
in
their
Silks and
Sa
tins,
and fpake what
they lift,
and
injoyed themfelves
to
the
full,
and
had
reverence and
refpeet of
all
the
peo le, they feern'd
to
be
brave, but
.a
company
of
poor
Chriflians
cone
before
them.