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he
hlefedneffe
and
tsfefzlnejii
of
f
í
ering
Saiats,.
before
the
Lord'breákes this
finfull
world
in
peeces.
Thts wee
have done
with that part of
Chrttis
Sermon,
the
$eatititdes, the
feverall
bleffings
that-ChriIl
layes
down upon
the
Saints
doing
their dudes.
Verf, 13.
re
are
the
felt
of
the
earth,
Here begins plainly
a
new
matter. Firfi,-he
tells
-his
Duce
pies of
Bleffedneíle,
they
flail
come
to
fee
their
own bl
ffed.
neffe, and having
fhewne them
their bleifednef
e,
that
what
ever
the world thought of
them,
yet
in
the
eyes
of
God they
are
bleffed
creatures
;
and
now
he
tells them what fervice
they
muff
doe in
the world,
which
indeed
is
a
great-part of
bleffedneffe
too. From
the
coherence
note,
(
that
iho!e men oh
r"
fra{n.,
that
God
fhall
put
into an efiare of bleffedneife, they are
fit
the
cohefeare
men, and
may
be
very
infirunmentall
to doe.great
fervice for
of
ncc
words,
his
names fake
)
when
once
the
foule
is
fatished
to
this; the
Lord
kath
been
to
me,
and
God
bath cafe
a'favoura-
ble
look upon
me, the
Lord
hath
put
me
into
a
frame
-anti
con-
clicion
of
bleffedneífe,
let
the world doe
what -they
can
-doe
to
me, they
cannot
take
bl'effedneiíe away from nie.
'
Oh hrw
fit this mania
to
doe
the
fervice of
God!
-And
in
the
words
following.,
you have
the greatefi fervice
that
the Apdfiles
were called
too
in
the
world.
-
-
-----
Secondly,
re
are
the
light
of the
world :
3rfollows
-more
efpecially from what
Chrifi
told them
-of-
perfecution,you
Thal
l
fuffer fo
much,
I
and
be
willing
to
fuffer
;
why
?
for
you -are
called,
to
the greatefl
works
that ever
God
cailed.any
men
to,
let
men
fp`eak
Et
hat.they
`Will,
revile what
they
will-,
certainly
God
will
reward
you
,
ye.are'the
felt of
t
re
earth, and the
light
of
the world,
and
if-
you
fhould
Bart afide for
feare of
f'uPcering,
what will
become
of things
then
?
and
indeed
the
confideration
of
mens imploy
gent
in
the
world,
is
a
great
and
a firong
argument
tó
carry men thorough what diflïcultie
fo-
ever, ler me goe 'On-in
the
work.
As -if a
General'
fh©uld
come
to
force Officers-in
the Army, and
tell
:them
the batrell
`conies
fore
on
them
,
therefore
keep
your
{landing,
for
foíftthe
6i
y.