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They
rho
for
Chrif
ore reproached,
by
Chrifi are
ble
f
fed,
See
how
God
is
reviled,
the
name of
God
is
blafphemed for
your
fakes,
when
you walke fcandaloufly
the
name of
God
is
reproached
;
if
a
profeifor of Religion hath
any
temptation to
fin,
confider
if
thou giveff
any
permitlion
to that
fin,thou tram
-
plell on
the name
of
Chrif}
;
you
trample
on
me,
faith
Chrif
+,,
wilt
thou goe
on
yet
to
the
permitlion
of
fin,
though the name
of
God
lyes
before thee
;
oh
hard
hearted
wr,tch,that
knoweff
the
name
of
God
lyes
there,
and
thou wilt trample
on
it.
It
follows
in
the twelfth verfe, that
is ,
Rejoyce
and
be
exceed
-
ing
glad
;
doe not
only account your felves
bleifed, but rejoyce
and
be
exceeding glad.
6
Chap. of Luke,
2
3
verfe.,
Rejoyce
yee in
that
day, and
leape
for
joy, for
behold, your
reward
is
great
in
heaven, for
in the like
manner did their
fathers
unto the
Pro-
phets.
Leap for
joy,
skip and leap for joy
when
as
you are
re-
viled for
Chrii,
that
it
is
not
enough for Chriffians
to
be pa-
tient
under futfering,
but
they
muff
be joyful' under fuffer-
ing,
it
doth not become
true
Chriffians
to
manifea
any
kind
of
forrow
under
any
fuffering for
Chris,
that
when at
any
time
we fuffer in
his
caufe, what
ever
we
doe whenwe
fuffer for
our
fin,
there
we
may
manifea the
work of forrow,
but
when we
ffffer perfecution for
Chrias
fake, Chriff would
not
have our
hearts
to
be forrowfall at
that time, but
calls for
re'oyci
g
;
and
here
is
the
difference
between
fuffering for fin, and fuffer-
ing
for the
fake
ofChriff, there
the Lord
calls for
mourning
and
weeping when
afflibfion
is on
you
for your
fin
, but
when
you
fuffer
for
Chriffs fake,
there the Scripture doth not
call
for
any mourning or
weeping
or
any
humiliation,but for
rejoy-
cing and
bleffing
God that
they
are
accounted
worthy for
to
fue-er
for
him.
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