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what
ble
fedne4e
there
is
in foffering
for
righteogneffe.
God,
and
of
all
your
Comforts, then
you improve
them
to
purpofe, when
as
you
make ufe
of them to
fuffer for
Chrift,
Fourthly
, It's
bleffed,
for thofe that
fuffer are
under
ma-
ny
bletled
proniifes
:
Why
If
you
fuffer with
him,
youflmil
be
Glorified
with
him
;
Read the
2d
7am:
2.1
z.
and
in
the
8
Rom:
there you have divers
excellent
expreflìons,
wherein
there
are molt excellent promifes
to
fuch
as
fuller
in
the Caufe of
Chrift
;
Math:
19.
29.
Every
one
that bath
forfaken houfes,
or
Brethren,
or
gent,
or
Father,
or
mother,
or wife, or
children,
or
Lands, for
my
Names fake,
fhall
receive
an
hundred
fold,
and
'hall inherit everlafiing life.
In the r fames
a
z.
Bleff
ed
i,
the
man
that
endureth Temptation,
for
when he is
rryed,
he
fhall.re-
ceive
the
Crowne
of
life,
which the
Lord
bath
prom*
a
fed to'them
that
love
him.
It
were
eafie
to
fpend houres,in
the recolle&ing
the,manypp.
romifes that are made
to
flittering Chriflians,
and
there are bleffed Comforts
which
they
have
that
fuffer
;
one
fames
Bainan,
a
Martyr;
when
they kindled the
fire at
his
feete,Methinks
they
firew
Eofes
at
my
feete, faith
he. And Mr.
Sanders
profefi
that
he
found abundance
of,Joy
flowing
to his
heart
all
the parts
of his
body,
that
he never
felt before
in
all
his
life.
But
above all, for
the Joy that
there
is
in fuf
-
.
fering, that place in the
a
Pet:
4.
14.
and
which
is
one
of the
moll
excellent
promies,
faith he,
Retoyce in
as much as ye
are
partakers
of
Chrifis fufferings,
that
when
his
Glary
¡hall
be
re-
vealed,
ye
may
be
Glad
alfa
with exceeding
Joy. But
what
for
the prefent
?
Why
If
ye.be reproached
for
the
Name of
Chrifit,
happy
arc
ye,
for
the
Spirit of
Glory,
and
of
God
refietb
upon
you
;
that
is,
the Glorious Spirit of God,all the
Saints have
the
Spi-
rit
of
God,
but
every
believer
hath
not
the
Spirit
of God,
and
of
Glory, that
ìs, bath
not the Spirit of
God
in
that Glorious
manner,
as
thofe,
that
fuffer
for
Chrift
have
;
And
Refi
upon
theta,
that
is,
to Comfort
}
ou,
to quickenyou,
to
do good
un-
to
you,
to inlighten
you,
712e
Spirit of
God
and
of
glory;
would
you
have
a
Glorious Spirit refl
and
abide
upon you,
not
to
have
force fiafhes
of it;Sometimes the
Saints have forne
flailies
of
the
holy
Ghoft,and they apprehend
Glory,0
but
when
they
come
to
fuffer,
they
have
the
Spirit
of
God
and
ofGlory reft
ing
uyon.ches .
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