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Saints

Pohl

rejoyce to

pe-rJecution..

'6o3

a gracious

heart will never

limit

himfelfe in

any

duty, but

he

muft-,put

it

felfe

into

an

infinite ocean

of

fen/ice

for

God,

the

expectation

which fuch

a

foule hath

from

God,it

is

beyond

all

finite

good whatfoever,

therefore

faith

Chrift,great

is

your

reward

;

he

Both

not

name

any

particular reward.

Againe, Great

is

your

reward

to

heaven

;

it

may

be

you

shall

meet with

no

reward

here

on

earth,

as

long

as

you

live on

the

earth,

you

t}iall

°be

reviled

and

perfecuted,

here

will

never

be

an end

of'this, it maybe

all

your life

time

will be

fpent,

and's

.therefore

look for

your

reward higher.

If

I were perfecuted

by

forne,

and honoured

by

others,

I

did not

much

care, but

it

may

be

,

you

(hall

be

reviled

by

the wicked, and difcountenán-

ed

by

the

gdiy,

fo

that

you

shad

have no

reward at

all

here

on

earth, but

you

are

to

expec,I

it

hereafter-.

I

confef e

the

Lord

fomerïmes

is

pleated

to

reward

them here

on

earth,that

is,

by

honouring

of them

in

the

confciences

of thole that

did

revile them,

well,

but

if

it

should not be

fo,if

yon

fhould have

,

nothing

here,

yoli

mutt

Waite

for

it

till

you

come

to heaven,

there to

have

that

full reward

;

and

the

Saints

are willing

fo

to

doe,

they are willing

to

flay

for all

their

reward

till

they

come

to

heaven

;

we

fee fuch a

reallity

and

certainty and glo-

ry in

the

things of heaven,

that we are willing to

flay, and

that

will

make

amends for all when

it

cones

;

there

is

no carnall

heart

willing

to

f+ay,but

they mutt

have

fomewhat for

the

pre

-

f

nt

inhand,

but

for

the

flaying for

that afterward they

cairn

t:

doe

it

,

they have

not

eyes

to

peirce the

heaven, to fee

be-

yond

the

vale,

what

is

this

?

It

is

faid

in

the

a

Pet.

i

Chap.

9.

verfe.

But

he

that

lacketh

thefe

things

is

blind,

and

cannot

fee

afar

of,

and hash forgotten

that

he was purged

frors

his

old

fnnes. Wicked-men

are purblind, they

can fee

things

that

are

'jiff}

before them,

but

they

cannot

fee

afar

off,

but

they cannot

fee heaven,

but

they

look

on

the

things

of the

earth

as

realli-

ties

;

but

the

Saints

look

on

the

things

of the

earth

as

vain:

things,

and

empty things,

and they

lo')k on

the thing. of hea-

ven

as

reallity

;

the

men of

the wo-ld

they

trade

with

God

for

finall

things

as

it

were, they

null

have

contentmen-

of

the

YIeIh

for

the

prefent

for

to

flay

their

carnall

h

ares,n

ither doe

H

h

h h

2

they

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