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Principles
for
fuf ering.
this,
when
I
do
fland
here
to
loofe for
Chritt, that
might
have.
loft for
my
fin,I that
am
in,danger of
my life
that
I
may
tettifie
my
refpef
to
Chriíf, I
might
have
been
in
danger
by
my
fin
:
O
what
a
blefled
thing
is
t
rather
then
the other:
this confi-
deration bath
a
mighty deal of
power
in it..
Fifthly,That God
may make
me futfer
in
fire
of
my hearr,,
if
I.find'a reluclanfie in me to
come*
off to fuller for Ch
tiff,
I
may
be
forced
in
1pi.te
of
nay
heart to
do
it,
and what
comfort
Ihall
I
then have
in
it
?
How much
better
is
it
to
fuller
freer
and
willingly for
Jefus Chriíf,
then
to
be
forced to.fuffer,
and
then there will be
no
exercife of grace
in
ir,
but
I
fhall be.
meerly
pave
;
As
I
remember the
Book
of
Martyrs
bath,
fuch
a
ltory of
one
that
was
a
Smith,'
That
was
a
means
in
King
Edwards
tine
to
convert
and turn
another
to
the
truth,
now
in
_Queen
Maryes
time the
perfecutors
did
feiz,e
-upon
him
that
was
converted
by
him, and
he
wus
call
into
pri
ton,,
and
flood out
in
his
fief crings
in
witneJng
for Chriff,now
this
man
fends
for
him
that
was
the
means
of
his
converfion
and
wonder'd
how
he
efcapt
all the
while,
for
you
(
faith
he)
wás
theman
that
told
me
theft things,
new
this
man
fends
word
backto
him
again,I
confeff
e
theft things
that
I
told
youtare
truth,
but
I
cannot
burn
faith
he, but yet this
man
though
he
would
not
burn
for Chrrfl,a
fterwards
his
houfe
was
fat
on
fire
by force
accident, and he
was
burnt
in
his
own
hosr
fe,
and
fo
ChriP made him burn whether he
would
or
no
:
Now
how
much
better
had
it
beenfor
this
man
to
have
burnt
for
Chriíf
?.
If
you
will
not
fuffer
any Joffe
of
your
ettate
for
Chriíf,
Chriíf
can
make
you
fuffer, he can
fet
fire
on
your
bodes,
and
take
away
your
eftates by
force
providence
or
other,Chrift
can
lay
atfli&ions
upon
you,
and difeafes upon you,'
you
are
loath
to
venter
your felves
for him, he
can lay
thole things
upon
you
that
will be
greater
evils then rhofe things
that
he
calld
you
to
futfer for his name fake.: Confider.
of this,
that
God
can
make
you
futfer whether
you
will
or
no
;
O
-'ris
better
therefore freely
and
readily
to
give up our felves to
fuffer for
Jefus Chriíf.
Sixthly,
No
creature
bath
any
good
in
it
any
further then
it
is
injoyed
in
God,
and improved
for
God,that's
a
fath
aga-
in;