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Some
Heads from what kath
been
Paid.
befotted
fool by
thy
lulls
that.wilt
förfake
Chrift
and his
care
for fear
of
perfecurion,
when
as
Chrift
himfelfe faith, 7
hofe,
areblefed that
fuffrr
perfecution,
Fourthly,
Chriltians
fhould
labour
to eftablith themfelves
in this
truth
for
the preparing of themfelves
for perfecution,,
look up
to
C
hritt
and
fee-
him pronouncing' this
ble[fednefs
:
Confider of
the
feverall particulars that
have
been
fpoken, but
efpecially
the
glory
of the
kingdome
of
Heaven,
that
will
ttrengthenthee
againitperfecutron,
for the very fight
of
that
glory,
if
thou canlf make
it
real to thy
foul,
it
will
put
a
mag;
Franimiry
upon thy
Spirit,
it
will
raife thy
fpirit
above
the
world,
rt will make
thee
look upon
all
things
as
under
thee,
dilpifng
and contemning
them;
As
it's
faid
of
Chrii
when
he
look't to the
joy that
was
fet before him,
he difpifed
the
flame,
he
lookt upon
it
as a
contemptible thing
:
There's
no-
thing
will make
the heart of
a
man truly
magnanimous;
fo as
the real
fight of
the
glorious
things in the kingdom
of
i-leaven,.
this
will darken
all
the glory of the world
in
thine
eyes
;
IC
once thou
half had
but
a
glimmering of the glory
ofthe
things
in the Kingdom
of
Heaven,
and
lookt upon
them
as
certaine
and
real,
how eafie would
it
be for
thee
to,futfer
any
thing
in
the
world,
that
Scripture in the i
o
Heb.
3
2.
33, 34.
is
re
markable for
this:
But call
to
remembrance the
former
dayes,
i
t
which
after
ye were
illuminated,
ye endured
a
great
fight
of
of
-
.
f
ilions, partly
whilefl ye
were
made
a
gazing
-
fiocbe,
oth
by
re-
proaches
and
afitlions,and
pertly
while,
fl,
ye
became
companions
of
them
that
were fo
ufed.For
ye had
compaf
on
of
me in my bonds;
and
took joyfully the
fpoylinQ
of
your
goods,
l¿nowtn
in your(elves
that
ye have in
Leaven a better and
an induringfubf/ance:
How
came
they
to
be
ftrengthned to
take joyfully
the
fpoyding
of
their
goods
Mirk
the Text,
I
vowing
in
your felves
that
ye
have
in
Heaven
a
better
and
induring
fubf
ante:
Obferve
the
phrafe;
he
loth
not
fay,
that
you
have
heard
fay
fo,but
knowing
in
your
fluty,
there
was
a
revelation of
it
by
the
Holy
Ghoft
unto
their
fouls
to
aflitre
them
of
it,
to fettle their
hearts
inir,.
K
nowiq
in
themfelves
that
they
had
in
Heaven
a
better
aa
in-
dur.n:g
fnbf
an,re
:
I
confeffe
after all.that
I
have
preached
to
yoak