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SERMON

XXXV.

OR

tone

Heads

from

anhat

hach

been

faid

about the

6le

f

fednc

fs of

per

fectstiox.

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5.

tO.

mleffed

are

they

which

are

perfecuted

for

Righteoufneffe

fake, for

theirs

is

the

king-

dome

of

heaven.

E

have

already preached

you know

divers

Ser,

nions about

the point of perfecution,

Chewing

you what

it

is,

and

when

men are

perfecuted

for righteoulneffe

fake:

And

how

men

may

be guilty of perfecuting others

for

righteouf-

nefs

fake,

and

notthink of

it

themfelves

:

-----

The

laa

day

we opened

the

bleffednefs

that there

is

in fuftering

perfecuti-

oi,

but

I

íha1l

not

look back

but (hall proceed,only

for this

r

o.

v:

to give you

a

fÿw

heads

by way

of

Application from what

bath

been

faid about

the

bleffednefs

of

fuf

ering

perfecution,

it's

a

bleffed thing

to

fuffer

perfecution, not

only

that blelled

--

nefs and

perfecution

may confifi

together, that

a

man

may

be a

bleffed

man

though

hebe

a

perfecuted

man:

No,

but

a

min

is

a

bleffed

man becaufe he is

a

perfecuted

man,

the

world

can

.hardly

tell

how bleffednefs and

perfecution

can

both

confi('t

;

but of

all

the

Saints in

the world

rhofe Saints

that are

mol

perfecuted are moll bleffed, this

is

a

great

paradox

to

the

D

d d d

world,