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What:bleffedneffe
there
is
in fuffering for rightcaufneffe.
Fathers
Throne
;
You
will
fay,
that
{hall
be
in
heaven
;
--.
Nay,
there
it's
plaine, that
he"gives
up
the
kingd&me
to
the
Father,
and'God
flail
be
all
in
all. But now
there,
is
another
kingdome
of Chrifi that
is
promifed
,
to
thofe
that overcomes,
and
that
fuch asfuf£er
(hall
have
a
fpeciall
(hare
and
part
in,'
as
in
the
Revelat
oii
;
For that
bOokis
written
for
the Incou-
ragement
of
the. Saints
in fufferings in
the Antichrifiiantimes.
There
you
fhall
find
that
Çhrifi
promifes
that
they
fhould.
reign
on
the Earth. And
if
you
read the 20
Chap:
where,
Chrifi fpeaks of
a kingdom
that he
(hall
have
for
a
long
time
and
efpecially
it's
faid in
the
4
v.of
thofe
that were beheaded,
and
that
did not
worfhip
the ßeafi,
nor receive
his
mark upon
their fore-
heads,
nor
hands,
eyther
openly
or
fecretly, they
were
the people that Chrift
efpecially aim
'd
at when he came
to
his
kingdome.
And in the Gofpel
by
St
Luke,
Chrift
incou
rageing
his
Difciples
in the
way
of futfering
for
him,
faith
he,
re
are
they
which
have
.continued
with
me in my
Temptation
What
then
?
4nd
1
appoint unto
yea
a
kingdome
,
as
my
Father
loath appointed
unte
me.
And that
fore-named place in
the
2
Wet:
4.
i
3.
Rejoyce
in as much as
you
are
partalers
of
Chriffs
fufferings,
that
when
his
Glory
(hall
be
revealed,
ye
may
"6e
Glade
alp with
exceeding
foy Now yotfare
forrowfull,
conremned,
defpifed,
and
troden
as
dirt
under feete,but
when
Chrifi
(halt-
appeare
in
his
Glory
to
take
the kingdome
to
himfelfe; For
it's
apparent
that
there
is
a"time
that Chrifi
(hail
teigne
otherwife'
then
now
he doth, for
faith
the
voyce from heaven in-the
_a'i.
Revel:.
The
kr'ngdoms
of this
world
are
become
the
kr,'ngdoms
of
our
Lord,
and
of
his Chrifi., and
he
fhall
reign
for
evermore.
So
that
Ifay,
the Scripture
is
cleere, that
there
is a
time
for
Jefus
Chrift
to
have
'honour
and
Glory
in
the
kingdoms
"of
this
world.:
And
there
may well
be call'd the kingdome
of
heaven,
though
ix
be
here
in
the world.
As
the
Minifleryof
the
Go-,
fpel is
call'd the kingdome,
fo
the Rule
of
Chrift
in
this extra-
ordinary way
;
and
when
Chrifi
shall come
to-
take this
king-,
dome
to hiinfelfe,
O
how will
he
owne
thofe
that
have futfer
ed
for
him
;
That
(hall
be
his
firfi work,
to.
owne
'and
'honour
them in
the
eyes
of
all
the
world
;.you fufferedthArd
things in=
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