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Some
arguments
for
the
helping
of
ahe
Saints
to
fxffer.
Ertl
to thew
the hitiory
how all
the Prophets
,
Difciples
and
the
Saints
that
have
gone
before
have fuffered
great
and
hard things.
Secondly
, wherein the Argument
lies
of
rejoycing under
perfecution.
Thirdly,
what
life
we
are to
make
of
the perfecution of
the Prophets. I
còuld
handle
but the
lira
;
Toproceed
to the
fecond;
Wherein
lies
the
power of this Argument
;
There
is
a
fivefoldfirength
in this
argumenr,or rather
five :arguments in
it.
Fitt+,
The
fame
fpirit of
tvickednefs
that
oppofed
them
doth
Rill
prevail,
and
it
is
the
fame
fpirit of truth that
is
op-
pofed,
you fee you
are oppofed
,
why
it
is
but the old fpirit
of Sathan,
that
fpirit of
wickedne.fs
that
hath appeared
here-
tofore,
it
is
that that
appears againli you.
Secondly, Hence
you may
fee that thofe
that
are dear and
precious
to
God,
that they
may fuffer
hard things,.
you
will
n-c
fay
but that the Prophets were
beloved
of God
,
and
yet
they
fuffered
as
much
as
you,
contemned
as
muchas
you,
re-
viled
as
much
as
you
therefore
be
not troubled
atit,
but
re
.joyce
and'.12e
glad.
Thirdly,
If
fo
be
God
should
deal
with
yòú
6therwife then
he
did
formerly
With
others,
then
it might
difcourage.
you,
but
they are
no
other
things then
his
fervants
heretpfore.have
fufeered
;
God
will lead
you
to
heaven
in
the
'fie.
path
that:
he
hid'
led
his
fervants
heretofore.
Fourthly,
It
is.the
way
that
God
hachbrpught
all fits
fer
vants into heaven
by
:
Why
should
yóu
think
thatGód
will
bring
you in
a
better
way
then he
did
others
?
for
fo
fuffered
the Prophets, the
very
Prophets
fuffered
fuch
things,.and
then
what is your
then
theirs?
What
are your names
better
then
theirs.?
It
is
a
molt iiitollerable thing that we
that
are
fo
vile
and mean
,
and do.
fo
little
fervice
,
that we
should think
it
mtwh
to do
any
thing.in
Gods
cat
fe,
that thole
that
have
been
better
then
we have
fuffered more
then"
ever-
we
did.
The
fifth
Argument
is
this
, That
though the
P.
op'iers
have
furfered
Inch
things,
yet
the
truth of God
prevails
;
We
fay,