951 / 1054
about
the bleffedref
ofperfecution.
you
about
this,
if
you know
ii
only by
what
L,have Paid,
or what
you
hear
from
others,that
will
never
rnable
you
to
fuffer with
joy
the fpoyling
of your
goods, but
when
you
know
it
in your
felves,
when
you
have
a
certain lure knowledge
of
it
by
the
Spirit
of
God
revealing
it
to
your
fouls, this
will
make
you
to
;offer
with
joyfulneille
the
fpoyling
of
your
goods
;
As
I
re-
member
j-ofeph
said
when he
Pent
to
Taecb, Regard:
not
the
fluffe,
for
the riches
of
&Egypt are
yours: So
a.
gracious
heart
when
it
comes
to
fee
the
riches
of Heaven, the joyes of
Eter-
nity, he looks upon these things as fluffe
and
lumber, he
is
fit
to futfer.any lofs
whatfoever, and indure
any
evils
that
can
be
c+ed.
Fifthly,If
it be
fuch
a
blefted
thing
to
fifer
with Chrift,how
blef
ed
is
it
to
reign
with Chrift
;
Take
a
Chrif+ian
at
the
low-
ell,
caf+
him
into Prifon,
put fetters
and
bonds upen
him, yet
he
is
a
bleffed
man ;Take
away
food and
raiment,
let
the mat
lice
and rage
of
all
the
Devils
in Hel
and
men
in
the world in-
fh&
what
evils they
poffibly can
upon
him,he
is a
bleffed man,
if
he
be bleffed
now,
O
how
bletfed
will
he be when he (hall
reign
with
Chrifl,when
he
frail
have
the Crown.uponhis head;.
and
Iland with glorious robes before
the Father
and
Jefus
Chrift, and Angels, and
fit
with
Jefus Chrift
to judge the
world,
and
reign
for
ever
with
them
Ohow
bleffed will
he,
be
then.
Sixthly,
Let
us
not
have
too
tow and mean
efleem of
fuffe-
rers,
let
us
look upon
them
as
honourable,
as
thole that
are
bleifed
;
Let
us
not
be
illy
of them
;
It's
ufual in
the
world
that when
any
come
to
fufrer in
a
good caufe
they leave
them,
they are illy
of
them,
and
let
them
ihift
for
themfelves
:
ó
it's
a
wicked thing
fo
to
be,
like
as
it
is
in
a
heard of
Deer,
they
go
together
till
the Hunts
-man comes and
fhoots
one
of them;
and
when
the
ref+
of
the Deer
fee
the
blood come,
they will
pufh
them
out
of their
company and
will go no longer
with
him, and fo
it
is many
times
in this
wild
world;Tlrofe
that
pro=
feífe
Religion, if they profper
in
the world, they
will.
be con
-
tent_then
to
joyn
with
them,
and
make
much of
them,
and
keep company
with
them, but if
the providence of
God
calls
cut:
57;