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Their pof
erity is
bleffeel
who
are
reviled.
the fecond book
of
the
Kings,
the
z
Ch.
23,
&
24. verfes.
And
he went up
from
thence
unto
Bethel', and
as
he
was
king
up
by
the way,
there came
forth
little.children
out
of the
city,.
and
mocked
him, fayiug,goe
up
thou
bald-head,
go
up
thou
bald
-
head,
and.he
turned
back,,
and
looked on
them
and turfed
-them
in the
,
rme
of
the Lord, and there
came
forth
two
Shee
bears
out
of
the
wood,
and
tare
42
children
of
them. Oh take
heed
of
reviling,
though you
do_it
ignorantly,take
heed of ir,it is
a
moll dange-
rous
thing,you will
fay you
do
not revile them
for
their
good-
neffe,
but becaufe they are hypocrites, far that,
I
will
give
you
that Scripture,
you
may think
it
may
be
an
excute;
but
it
may
prove to
be
an
aggravation,
3
Mark
z.
And
the
Scribe:
which
came
down
frsm
Hierufalem,
faid
pie
bath
Belzzebub,
and
by
the
prince
of
the
divells
caleth
he
out
Devil's. They
would
not re
'iile them
and
fay,
we
do not
fpeake
thole
evills
of them
becaufe they
have
the Spirit of
God,
but
it
is
by Belzebub,
therefore from thence note
this, That
its
a
dangerous thing
to
to
charge
that
on
hypocrite
or
any
wickednefle,
&
God
knows
it
comes from
his
own fpirit, I
might
thew
you
divers
Scrip_
Lures,
read'
the
59
'pfal..and the
57
Pfal
::
But efpecially
the
59
Pfal: That
they goe
up and
down grieving through
the
City,
you fpeake
contemptible of the Saints,
and
the Holy
Ghofl
fpeakes
very contemptible of
you,
God
keeps
their
hands
iliort
or elfe
they
would do
more,
for they
go
grieving
up
and down
the
flreetes.
--
But to go
on in
the
Text
;
Blefled
are
you
when
men revile you,
and
perfecute
you,
Her
comes
in
perfecution
again.
Firtl,
F.
om the
doubling
of this,
(
for
there
is
nothing
in
Scripture that
is
in
vaine, though
there
be repetion§
yet there
is
force
reafon)
you
are
blelled
and
your pollerity
is
bleffed,
Chrifl pronounceth
bleffedneffe
on fuch
as
iuffer for
his
names
fake,
Char
fuller perfecution, and
it
may
be
a
great comfort
ro
any
that
have had
their
forefathers fuffered, and Chrifl will
own
themthe rather, Chrifl
will own
their
poflerity
the
ra-
ther.
Suppofe you
fhould
have one
come ro'you in poor
tat-
tered ragg,,
and
hegg
at your
door,
and one should come:and
tell
you.,
this
mans
father
loft
allthat
he had
for your
fake
;
his
Gggg
Grand-
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