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`Principles
for
fuffering.
_
whofoever
Chrif}
gives
a
fuffering
heart too
,
let
fuch
a
one
know
he
bath
received
a
great gift
from
lefus Chid
},
you
think
it
an
excellency to be
able
co
pray,
to
be
able
to
fuller
is
more.
I
remember
we.
read of
one
of
the
Martyrs,
that
when
he
was
call'd to
Argue for
the
truth, I
cannot
diipute
for
ir,
faith
he, but
I
can
die
for
ir,
that's
more
:
It's
more
to
be
able
to
luffer for
the truth,
then
to
preach
of
it,
yea
topraetiìe
the
truth.
It's
a
blefíed thing. Now the Scripture
is
very
plenti-
full
in
this
Argument,
to thew
the bletledneffe that
there
is
in
fuffering
:
In the
g
Acts
41.
They went away rejoycing,
that
they were accounted worthy
to
fifer
fhame
for
hU.
name :
Read
the 6
Luk
22,
23.
Chril+
would
have his
Diiciples rejoyce
and
leap
for
joy
when they came
to
fuffer
any
thing
:
Read the
zd
Cor: I
I.
23. When
the
Apoflle would Glory
in
that
chat
he
accounted
his
excellency,
obferve what
it
is
he glories
in
Saith
he,
Ore
they
Min
f
err
of
(Thrift
?
I
f/eakas
a
fool,
I
ara
._,more:
He
falls a
Glorying
becaufe he
was
disparaged
by
the
falfe
teachers, more,
how
?
In
labours more
abundant
;
in
'tripes
above meafure
;
in
pri
foes more
frequent
;
in
deaths
oft
;
Of
the
ewes
five
times received
I
fortie
"tripes
fave
one
;
Thrice
was
I
beaten with
rods
;
once was
I
f
oned;
"i
hrice
d
fuffered fhipwracká
a
night and
a
day
I
have
been
in
the
deep ;
In
journeying
ofte,s
an
perils
of
waters,
in perils
of
robbers,
in
perils
by
mine
own
Co!nl
trey-men,
in perils
by
the heathen,
in
perils in
the City
, in
perils
in
the
wildernef
e,
in perils
in the
fra,
in perils among falfe Bre-
thren,&c. Now the
fcope
of the Apofile
was
to
Phew
his
Glo-
ry,
he
did
not
Glory in
this
fo
much
,
I
have
parts more then
they,
or
I
have
learning more
then they, or
I
have honours,
no
,
but
I
fuffer
more
for
Chrif}
then
they
;
O
it's
a
blelfed,
thing to
fuffer
for
Chrif}
;
and
fo
in
the
12 Chap:
Io
y.
T
here
-,
fore
I
take
pleafure
in infirmities,
in reproaches, in
neceffities,
its
perfecutions, in
difreffes for Chrifts
fake
:
I
take pleafure,
it
is
a
delightfull,
a
pleafant thing
to
me, O
I
account
it
a
moll
bleffed thing
in
fuffering
any
thing
for
Chrifts
fake
:
Saith
Ter-
tullian
in
the primitive
times,
Tour
Cruelty
is our
Glory, our
bleffedneffe,
our happineffe
;
I
de
fire
to know
nothing, faith
gjaul,
bat Chri(t
;
I
there's
a.great deale
of
excellency in
him
;
but