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for
fto er
mg.
555
them
out
of the
prifon,
tottered
and
ragged,
and (land
at
the
Bar, and anfwer
for
their
lives
Now
you
lhali
have many
poor
people, they think the
e
poor creatures
that
(land in
fuch
a
mi-
ierablecondrtton to the eye
offlefh, that they are
in
the worft
condition, but
the
others
are
happy;ô
but
a
Chriftians eye
fees
quite
otheravife,
that
looks upon
the perfecutors
as
the
molt
miferable)
wretched,
forlorn, undone creatures,
and look upon
the
Saints
as
the
moil glorious creatures
It's
a
notable
Scrip-
ture that
you have in
the
of
lieb:
latter
part,
Others
had
tryal of
cruel rnock
m k
ngs
and
fc
®urgings.;
yea,
moreover
of
bonds
and
imprifonment,
they
were
ftoned,
they were
fawnafJunder,were
tempted, were
(lain with
the
fuord,
they
wandred
about
in
'beeps-
skins, being
deflitute,
a
titled,
tormented :
Were
not thefe mi-
ferable
creatures
?
Though
fled.
and
blood would
count
them
rnìferable
creatures,
yet
mark what
the
Holy
Ghofts
judge-
ment
is
of them,
ver:
3R.
Of
whom
the world
was
not
worthy,
they were
fo
happy
when they
wandred
up and down in
fheeps
skins
and
goats
skins,
that
the
world
was
not
wo:
thy of
them,
it's
not
fo
of their
perfecutors,
they were
vild,
as
I
remember
it's
faid of
Antiochus
Epiphanes,oand
in his
effaeim
a
dep
4
vild
pert
n, though he
was
amighty Prince, yet
fecutor
of the
Saints, he
is
called
.a
vildperCon,,
and
thefev
who
are thus
perfecuted
are faid (by
the
Spirit
of God)
to be
fuch
as
the world
was
not
worthy of
them
Fourthly,
That
it's
a
great deal
better
to fuller for
Chrift,
then to
fuffer
for fin, why now
this confideration bath
a
great
deal of power in
it,
for when thou
art
called
to
fuffer
any
thing
in
the
caufe of Chrif
},
thoumayeft think thus
;
why
the
Lord
might
have
left
me
to
my
felf,
that
I
might
have
fur'fered as
much for my
fin, for my wickedneffe,as now
I
am
call'd
to
fuf-
fer
for
Jefus
Chrift,
I
am
call'd
it
may
be
to
fuffer
the
lotte
of
fome
part ofmy
eßtate,
why
Tmight
have
been
convenced for
my
fin,
andby the
hand of
Jullice
I
might
have
had
my efface
taken from
me,
I
am
in prifon,
I
might
have
been
in'
prifon for
n;y wickedneife,
I
am
in danger
of
my
life,
God might
have
given
me up
to
fuch
a
fin,
as
I
might
by
the
hand of
Juflice
have
had
fny
life taken fromme
:
Now
how much
better
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