Godly poor fhall ?life all thingr. But you will fay there is one pail-age that feemes to fpoyle all, he shall in this time receive houles and lands ( and the like) but with-'perfecution and.in the world to come eternall life ' It Ball be with perfecution, to that this fpéakes of a time when they ibal be perf cuted,now how can thefe two thud together. Therefore for the anfwer to that, I doe verily think that this is a true anf1er to it, that this that is translated in your booke With perfecution: Thofe that underfland the Origiinall know that it is NT, it doth not aiwayes fignifie with buta fter : I could give you divers places where the Word (4 fignifies after as wel as with : as in the 8 Mark,3 t. And he began to teach them that the Son of man mull fuffer many things, and be reeled of the elders,and of the chiefe Priefts and Scribes, andbe killed,. and after three dayes rile againe, there it is ¿7 the very fame word, and it mull of neceflity be tranflated after : So that you may by the fame warrant that here it is tranflated after three dayes he (hall rife againe. So trannate the other, that he (hall receive houses and lands, &c a hundred fold after he bath in- dured perfecution : Now to determine in what way, or how; or when the Lard will fulliill this it is very hard to doe, you know the fulfilling of proçhefies is the bell interpretation of them, but to me it feemes to be very clear that the Scripture Both hold forth this that it-is part of the kingdome of Jefus Chrif} that he will bring his'people in time to enjoy, whatfo- ever good things there are to be enjoyed here, for the reward of God (lands in a fpirituall way, not in a fenluall way as fame . have dream'd of, but in a fpiriruali and holy way ; And this is the bleftng of thole that are poor in rerpedf of their outward eftates, and have fpirits futable. Now there are many that are troubled in refpeo of the meanparts that they have, yet they having fpirits futable to their mean parts andwilling to honour C od i.0 them, theirs is the kingdome of Heaven alfo But now-I will for the pre- lent leave them, and fyeake to the third, and -that is thofe that are poor in grace. As Firft, Thou haft but a little grace, and art very poor and mean, and this troubles thee, yet bided art thou : For Firft,
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