The Temptations that godly poor have. that thou wouldft have had fuch grace as now thou hail, fuch manifeilations of God to thy foule as nòw thou haft, and there- fore it's well with thee that thou art in the kingdome of 1-iea- vcn where there is fuch communications of fuch fpirituall riLhes. And then, from all there in the Ligth place followes, that hence the great temptations that thole that are poor people are troubled withall, may from the confiderarion of the bief ling of the Kingdome be taken away. What are they you will fay. There are three great temptations which thofe that are poor people and are godly have, theDevil! comes againll them with very fore Temptations, that fuch as have eftates are not fo much troubled withal!. As Firft, I am afraid that God goes out againft me, and Both not bleíle me in any thing that I goo about, and ió they are afraid, and under great bondage, but that bath been an- fwered already. The Second is, I am in a poore condition and therefore de- fpifed, No, thou arc a King, thou art translated into the King- dome of his dear Son, thou haft part in his Kingdome, and art a King together with hímfelfe. And therefore liften not to that temptation that rifes from contempt and being dëfpifed, doth not the world regard thee ? the Lord God bath a high refpe6 to thee, for he bath given thee a Kingdome. And then a Third temptation is, They are ufeleffe in the world, nay this Text will anîwer that temptation, Thine is the Kingdome, and as you heard the Lord Chriftdoth carrion the great defi,n of his Kingdome by thofe that are poore , and therefore be not troubled becaufe of thy ufeleisnefíe in the. world ; And that's the eight fupport of thofe that are outwardly poore , and poore in fpirit futable to their outward poverty. The Ninth is this, That at laft, thoe that are poor and god - ly, yet they !hall poffeífe all things, And I f nd Scripture for it : 27 Rev. 7. Let men thinke what they will of fuch ana11er tion as this, yet by comparing one thing with anoth r, it can- not (peak of the glory that there Ihall be in the higheft Heaven, but
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