zli Comfort to thofe that are poor in the world. people that lives upon the earth, ô thefe are dreadful( ob;ecîs to look upon, like to bemiferable here,and to be miferable to all eternity hereafter ; fuch poore as thefe, you muff not thinke that because you are miferable here, therefore you have your hell here, and shall not be miferable hereafter ; o no ; If -you can read, you may readin the Epiftle of jside, where the Apo - file (peaks of fome that were Confumed with fire from hea- ven, and yet were fent downe to eternal( fire afterwards fo `there are force that the Lord h th forfaken in this world, and are like to be forfaken ro all eternity in the world to tonne. But you will fay, This is little Comfort to the poore : little Comfort, Are there any here that would have Comfort ? Is it the word that you doe expect Comfort from ? If there be,. any poore that doth but delire to have Comfort from the word : I would be loath to let this pals without adding some - thing ; Therefore that you may not be difcouraged in your poverty. You may have this Comfort from the word, ( Blefred are the poòre,) For, firfl,you poore ones have as precious foules as the greátefl Monarks of the earth ; your foules are as much worth, and capable o as much glory, as the great Empe- rours, Kings, and Queens of the world ; and that s fomewhat. 2!), You k:. re, may have as free accels toGod, and hea- ven is as open t77ou as to any of the grease(} Potentates of the world: There is as great a po:Ihility, (if you have hearts to looke after it,) for you to have a Crown ofGloryin the higheft heavens, as for the greateft Monarch that lives upon the earth and that's fomewhat to you. 31,, Let me fay, That not only you are as neere, but in force refpe&s neerer to ete pall bleflednefs (If you be not wicked and ungodly, and have but hearts to looke after bief Tednefs, you may more likely attaine to blefle refs) then the Great ones of the world ; For your temptations are not fo great as,theirs ; Indeed the temptations of poverty are great, but the evil's that other temptations would draw the heart too) are things more pleafing to nature, then the temptations of poverty ;:poverty tempts to difpaire, and to fhifting conrfes, but
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