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Some
Heads from
what bath
been
fail
o1
t'any particular
one
to
fuffer
more
theta
other,
you fha
have
all
the
other
that
were
wont
to
be inward
and
intimate
'With
them,
with-draw
from
them, and
will fcarce
Own
them
;
o
this
is
a
wicked'and curfed thing
Why wilt
thoù not
own
them
now
?-
What
dolt
thou look upon
them
in
a
worfe con-
dition
then they were
why
now
they
are
made bleffed,
As
I
remember Ignatius
Paid
when he
felt
hisbones
crashing
by
the
mouths
of the
wild Beafts,
Now
I
begin
to he
a
Cbriftian,
So
he
begins
to
be
a
Chriftian; and
it's
a
fign
that God
looks upon
him
as
more eminent then thou,
becaufe
he
is
call'd
to
fuffer,
O
therefore be not thou alhamed of
thofe
that 'Chrift
glories
in,
and
faith
that
they
are bleffed.
It's
very remarkable
that we
read
of
John,
in
the t
Reve.
9:
v
:John
fpeaks of
himfelf
there,
and mark
what
he
glories
in
:
I
'chn
who alto
am
your
Brother
and
Companion
inTribulation
and in
the
kingdom
and
patience
of
Jefus Chrrfi,
was
in
the
Ifle
that
is
called
Parmos,
for
the word
of
God,
and
for
the teftimonyof Jefus
Chrift
:John
cloth
glory
in
this,that
he
is
the
companion
of the
Saints in
tribulation;
3
ohnt
doth not
glory
in
this, why
I
Jahn that
am an Apof }le,
that
am
the beloved Difciple of Chrift,
I
John
that
lay in
the
bofom
of
Chrift;no,but' I
John
that
am
your companion in
Tribulation,
and John
that
was
banifhed
to
the lfle of
Patmos
for the
word
of
God,and the
Te[Ùtmonÿ
of
Chrift;
John gloryes
in
this
to be
the
companion
of
others
that
Miters
in
the
caufe
of
Chrii+,
and
fo
that
forenamed Scripture in the
to.
lieb,
faith
he, Partly
whilftye
became companions
of
them
that
were
fo
ufed:
And this is
a
ufefull
Note
that
we
are to
lay
up againft
fuch a
day that
the
Saints
fuffer, be willing
to
own
them,and
be
not at
all
afhamed
of them
:
That
one
Scripture
I
íhall
nacre about glory
in
futfering
:
Chrift himfelf
he gloryes in Mitering, and when
he
would
thew
forth
his
glory
to
Paul (in
the 9
Ads)
to bring
him down, mark what he
faith
there
:
I
heard
a
voice
faying,
Saul,Saul,why
perfecuteft
thou me
?
and
the
Lord
fa'd,
I
am
3e-
fret
whom
thou perfecuteft:
it
¿chard
for
thee
to
kcle,againft the
pricks
:
Thou
kickef} againft
the pricks in
perfecuttng
me
;
Thou
perfecuteft me,
it
s'not
my
Saints
but my felfe that thou
perfecuteft
:
I
own
theni
they
are mine
:
And
I
remember
there's