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SERMON

XXXVI.

O

Fe.

A

word

of

ufe to

thole

who

are

reviled:

M

A

T H.

S.

ri'.

$leJecl

areye,when

men

(hall revile

you, and

perfecute

you,

and

'hall

fay

all

manner

of

evill againl

you

fad

felg,

for

my

fake.

His

laf

.Rule

of

our

Saviours

for

bleffednea

is

the molt

ffrange

to

flefh

&

blood

of all

the

other,

for

them to

be blefí'ed

that are

perfecuted, reviled,

yea

the rather

bleffed

becaufe

perfecuted

and

reviled ; this is

a

ridle to

&fh

and

blood,tberefore

Chria

is

the

more

large in

it; there

is

but

one

fhorc

verfe for

any

of

the

other,

and

three

large verfes för this. For

the

poynt

of

perfecution we have opened

what

it

is,

and

the

condition of the

Saints

what

that

is,

Wherein

the

bleffedneffe

csf

that

confiffs, becaufe

few will acknowledge

thar

they

perfey

cute

for righteoufneffe, we gave fome Convi6tions

for men,

whereby they

may

come

to

know

that

in

their

perfecution

of

godly

men,

that

it

is

right'eoufneffe

that they

may

perfecute

;

and what

is

contained

in

that

promife, theirs

is

the

k.ngdome

of

heaven.

We,

came

the

laí}

day

to fpeakof

this particular

perfecuti-