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what
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is
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bast
Chrift and him
Crucified
Chrift
and
his
Croffe, I
Glory
in
that above all,
That
I
know
Chrift ,
and
that
I
know
him
praoîically.
Now
for
the
bleffednefl'e
that there
is
in
fuffering
,
many
things
might be
Paid,
but
I flail
but prefent before
you
tome
fhort view
of
what bleffedneffe
there
is
in
fuffering
perfecu-
tion.
--
Firft
,
If
God
gives
thee
a
heart
to
fuller
for him, thou
haft
in
this
a full
evidence of the
truth of
thy
Çraces,
yea
and
of the
f}rength
and
the
eminency
of
thy
Graces,
thou
giveft
witneffe
to
all
the world that thou art
one
that lov'ft Chrift in
fincerity,
and
that
thy
Graces
are firong and powerful!,
that
thou
art not
as
an
hypocrite
that
will
fall
off in
the time of try
-
all; that
thou art not
as
a
rotten
bough
of
a
tree,
that
when
it
háth
a
weight
upon
it
breakes prefenrly
;
No,
but
that thou
haft
the Spirit of Chrift,
and
the ftrength of Chrift
with
thee,
that thy Graces are
of
the right
ftamp;this
thou
doeft declare
to
all
the
world;
and
'tis
a
bleffed thing
to
give Evidence
be-
fore men
and
Angelis, before
the world,and
before thine
own
Confcience, thatindeed
thy
heart
is upright with
Chrift,
and
that thy Graces
are f}ronger then thou thoughtef}
thy
felfe
it
may
be were
;
many
that are afraid
offufferings before
they are
calyd
,
yet
when they
are
call'd to
ir,
they
find
ability
to
goe
through
more then ever they
did
imagine
;
and this
is a
bleffed
thing.
Secondly,
There's
a
great deale
of honour
in
fuffering
;
It's
a
fpeee4
ofIgnatius;I
had rather
be
a
Martyr
then
a Monarch;
and
fo
you
know
Mofes chofe
rather
to
fuffer
with
the
people
of
Gad,
then
to info),
all the pleafures
and
riches
of
Egypt.
But
above others
;
This
is
very remarkable
;
Chriflonae
fpeaking
of the
commendations
of Paul,
and
the fetting
out
of his
praifes, he
doth
efpecially
infift
upon
his
fufferings, and
profeffes
if it
were given
to
him
, eyther
to
heare
him fpeak
out
of
heaven, or
the
prifon, he had
rather
hear
him
fpeaking
euudfthe
prifon, then
out
of heaven,
rind
in
another '
lace,
faith
he,
Paul
was
lift up to the
higheft heavens, and
there
he.
heard words
that
were
unutterable,
I
but
Paul
in
the prifon,
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faith