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Saints
fhould
not be
put
out
of
their
way
by
reviling.
charge
any
evill
on
them,
you
ought
to
pray the more from
their,
and
fpecially
if
you
think
there,
be
any
thin
of God
in
them, and
if they
have
any
thing
of
God
in
them, do
not fpeak
any
thing
againft
them but
in
prayer, were thefe
rules
but ob-
ferved, that
as
often
as
they prayed for
them,
they prayed for
them,
as
with
a
bitter
fpirit they
fp'oke
againft
them, then
thou
wouldeft
be
clear
in
thy
Zoïa
ctence
of
reviling. But not to
proceed further
in that
which we
(poke
of
the
tuft
day.
A.
word
or
two
mere
about
this
poynt
in
generall.
If
they
be Bleffed
that
be
reviled,Let
not
the
Saints by
revi-
lingbe
put out of
their
way, when
as
Chrift tells
thee
thou
art
blefied,
whatreat
hurt
haft thou
when
fuch
call
thee
fuch
names, and
fpeak fuch
evill
of
thee
and thou canft bear
it,
fuch
as
know what chriftian
Religion
means
indeed, they
llaould
not
at
all
be
turned
out of their
way
becaufe of reviling nor.
diflike
thereof, do not
fit down with
this,
fince
I
came
to
pro
-
feífe
the
chriftian
Religion,
what names have
been
call
on
me,
fcornes, reproaches and revilings,
I
remember
a
learned
malt
hash
this
fimilitude,
what
a
dithonour were
it
for
a
Souldier
with
a
puffe
ofwinde
to
be
call
off his
horfe, would
not
every
one
laugh
at
it
?
Such
dishonour
is
it
for
any
one
that
is
itra
good
way
or
in
a
good
caufe
to be taken
off
by the reproaches
of
wicked men
which
are
but
pages of
wind,
men are willing
to
fuller reproaches for
their
flume,
shame,
and
any
name
for
to
have
their
tuft, and wilt not thou be willing
to
fuller
nick
names for
the
caufe of
Chrift, remember
that
Chrift
bath
delivered
thee
from
an.
eternal reproach,
i
z
Danz.
And
ma=
ny
of
them
that
fleep in
the
dufp
of the earth
(hall
awake,
fore
to.
everlaftting
life, and
force
to
fharse, and everlafting
contempt.
Yea remember that
Chrift
takes care
of
thy name,
and thou
art
under
a
great
many
of promifes
for
clearing thy righteouf-
heife
as
the
noon
day, and
it
is
not to
fit down and think
to
go
out
of
the
way
by reafon
of reviling,
but
pray
to theLord.
Take
Direfions
bOro,
two
or
three
Scriptures
for
dire
&ions
to
the
godly
when they
ro
behave
are
reviled, the
one
is
in
the
io9
.441. the
beginning
of
ir,.Y
esundo',
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p.
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