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Prineiple.r
for
fasfering.
559
Tenthly,
That there
is
more evil in the
leaf'
fin,
then
in
the
greaten
atfliCtions, 'cis an ill
choife
to
ch iofe
the
leaft
fin
rather
then the
greateft
afliicîion,
if
fufferings
be
prefented
to
thee,
and
thou art
afraid
of them,
thou thinkeft
them
ter
-
rible,
why
the leait
vain
thought
of thy
mind
is a
greater
evil
then all
the'torments
that
all
the
perfecutors
in
the
world
can
inllia
upon
you.
--
You
will
fay,
this
is
hard:
--
This
is
a
riddle
indeed
to
carnali
hearts,
a
riddle,
why
my
Text it
f_if is
a
rid-
dle,
and
therefore
no
mervail though we
freak things
that
carnal
hearts
¿anno underttand, but certainty thofe tb
whom
God hath
ever
made
known
the
dreadful! evil
that
there
is
in
fin,
they cannot
but
be,
and are in
Tome
meafure
fenfible
of
it,
that
there
is
more evil
in
any
one fin,
then in
any afilidtions
whatfoever, and
therefore they
had
rather
to
indure the
Brea-
tell fufferings
then willingly
to
commit
the
leaft
known
fin,
it
may
be
force
of you
account
light of
fin, and can
upon
every
little temptation be drawn
to
the
commiffiion
of
it
;
wel,
but
how
lightly foever
you
make of
fin,
thofe
that
are
the
Saints
of
God
that
knowwhat
fin
means, they
had
rather indure
all
the
torments
that
can be
devifed
in
the
world, then to
commit
any
one know
fin
wilfully
:
certainly
there's
a
great deal,of
dif-
ference
between
thy apprehenfion and theirs
;
I
befeech
you
brethren
lay
up this
tenth
fuffering
principle(for,fo
I
cal
them)
Lay
up
as many
as
you can
remember,.
and3
delire
thofe
that
do
remember,
or take
them,
to
help
you
with
them, that you
may lay
them
to
your
hearts,
and
lay
them up by
you
againfl
the
time that
God
may
carryon
to
futfer
fo'
his
trrurh
,.
But
that
in
the
Text
hath much in
it
;
Ble
jfed are they
that
.rre
yerfecasted
for
Righteoffneff
è
fake::
There
is a
great
bie
Iìn
in fuffering ;
--
That
we
may add
as
a
eleventh
That
fuffer-
ing
for
Chrift
is
a
great
'bleflîng, and
that's-the point
in
the
text
;
It's
a
gift
of
God
;
lt's
given
to you,
not
onely to
beleeve,
bast
to
infer
:
It's
a
greater
gift
to be
Tnabled
ro
fuff,r
for
Chrift, then
to
be Inabled
to
do
any thing
in he
wor1,1
for
him
:If
Chrift fhould Inable
you
to
work miracleq,
it
were
no
fó
great
a
Gift, if
you
were
Inabled
ro raife
the dead out
their
graves
,
as for
Chrift to give
you
a,
fuffering
heart,
whofo-