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Sams
ihou1d rejoyce
perfecutiQn.
may fend for
the
fin
of
his
people
;
yet
we doe
not find
that
God
chargeth
this on
his
people, that
they (hall
fuffer
for
Lis;
caufe and atfii&ion for
their
fin,
but when
we
come to
fuffer
for
the
caufe
of
Chrift
,
God
bath
a
further end in
it
then to,
afflia
you fo,as
to
call for
mourning.
Reify; ce and leap for
joy,
why:
forgreat
is your
reward
in
heavy;
;
you
fhall be rewarded
for
your
iuffering,every
fpot
of
dirt
that
is
call
onyou,fhall be
turned
into,a
pearle,
fhall make
your
reward more glorious,
dour
happines,.
that
happines
that
the
Saints
ball
have
is
called
a
reward,
nor
a
reward
of
merit,
but
a
reward
offree
grace;
As
a
father
though he intends
an
inheritance
to
his
child,
yet
to
encourage
him
to
goe
to
School, he
proìnifeth
him fuch
and
fuch
a
reward,but not out
of
merit, but
out::
of
his
free
love
to-
ward
the child;the Lord
is
pleafed
to
call
alltheglory
in
hea-
ven
a
reward,
that
we futfer for
his
names
-fake,
though min-
gled
with fin,.and this
is
to
encourage
us
poore
creatures,
that
are
led
now in hope
of
a
reward,and great
is
your
reward
;
it
is
much,
a
great reward
;there
is
furely
a
difference
in
the
glory
of
heaven,
if
they
that
fact'
anoftfhall
have
the
greatefl
re
,
wards
they (hall
=have
a
great
reward, becaufethey
fuffer
fo..
much,
and this for encourageing
in
fuffering;
furely
there
is
foule-difference in rewarding for fuffering, they
flail
have a
great reward.
This
is
obfervaale,that Ch
rift
doth
riot
tell them
what
reward
they
{hall
have, he
doth
not
inftance
in
particu-
lar
rewards,
no,becaufe
it
is
fo
great
as
it
is
not
to
be
limited,.
as
not
to be eapreffed;
as
we are not
able
to underi
}and ir,.
therefore
Chrit+ names no
particular reward, but it
is
a
great
reward
;
furely our
hearts are too
narrow when we conceive
any
limits of
Gods mercy,
when we thinke thus,.
if God
be
mercifull
to
us,
thus
and thus,
then we
fhall be
happy
;
thou
haft
too
narrow
a
fhirit to
put
any
thus and thus
on
the
,mercy
of
God,
the
mercy
of God
it
is
a
deep
expre1Ion,
there
is
no
catnalhheart in the
world,
but
as
he
limits
his
obedience,
fo
lie
limits Gods mercy,
but
he
doth
frame
tome
fn
all
content
-
ment that he
hopes
to
have
and
if
he could
have
but
force'
things he could be fatisfied
;
a
gracious heart
is
fo
large,
that
nothing particularly
can
fatisfie him and this
is
the ground
why
a