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vfer
roe
are
tomake,
of
Ile
fufferings
offormer Saints.
6x3
fay
if
they
be imprifoned
and
perfccuted ,
what
will become
of
Gods
truth
?
do
not
take
16
much
care
for
that,
for all
the
Prophets fuffered ,
and
did
not
God
preferve
his
truth
?
were nor
they made inllruments
of
good
for all
their
fuffering?
they
were made
inftruments-
of
the
greatetl
good
:
put there
five
confiderations
together,
and you fee the force
of the
Ar-
gun3.etít.
What
Ufes we
are
to
nuke
of
thofe that
went before
us.
kirfl,If
fo
be that
thofe
that were
themefl
eminent fer-
r
üfeof tx,
vans
of
God
have
fuffered
fuch hard
things
,
then if we be
in
alr,ination.-
a
profperous
eflate
and called
to
fuffer
but
little,
we
are
to
examine
whether
our
profperity be
with
the
love
of
God
or
no, doth
God
fend
us proCperity
in love
?
they that were
molt
beloved
of
him they
did not
enjoy
their
cafe
and con
-
tentmentas
we
do, therefore
we
had
need
examine our fclves
to
fea
whether
that
we do
enjoy
be with
Gods
love or
no, ma-
ny
think that
God
loves
them moll
becaufe
they
have
moil.
Oh!
no,
if
fo.be -God deals
not with
you
as
he hath done
with
other
Saints, you had
need
examine
how you
do
enjoy
that
,
methinks
any
man
that
lives in
a
high
elate
,
and hath.ait cafe
amto
his
flei7l
,
either
when
he
reads
of
otherof
the
preci-
ous Saints
of
God,
and he
is
convinced
in his
confcience
that
they
have done more
fervice for
God
in
one
week,
then
he
hath
done
in
a
whole
yeer
Both
God
love
me
more
them
them
?
it
may
be this
is
my
portion
,
this
is
all
that
I
am
like
to have.
The
fecond
Life
we fhould
make of
this,
is,
Were
the
Pro-
2
urCti.
phets called
to
fuller
in
former time
?
the
lets we are
called
to
pailrve
obedience
,
let
he more
in
naive obedience;
'The
very hearing
of
what he Prophets: have fuffered
in
for-
mer
time; it
would make
your heart to
ake,
if
-you
read
the
book
of
Martyrs,
it
would be very
ufeful.:
I
OEiall
only
labor
to
male
this
ufe
of it
;
when
you hear
of
their,fuffering,think
thus
with
your
Elves, God
called
them
to
futfer in
a
pail
ve
way,
hence they fuffered what
rage
and tortures
wicked men
could devife,
God
doth not
call
me
toTuffer
in
a
way
of
£
ch