WhyGod lets hir Saintr6e c fjy'i 1 ed, thren, they are chore that are neare to us, they are the Saints of God. And confider Secondly, We have the route of the matter in our laves why canft thou think iñ thy confcience that fuel men ihouldbe infí:ch an atlliéted eflate and thou ihouldl feele nothing thy feue, thou thouidfl have all thine about thee as ever is there any realon why fuch excellent Saints of God, that have done God io much service in their generation should be call our of houle and home, and thou fhouf d'Il fet at thy, Table ío full, and have thy wife and children about thee,, and thy houle fo furnithc,and all at peace, what realon can there lie given, is there not as much in thee to provoke God, as in them: hall thou done more fervice for God ,then they 0 if thou hadit not the heart of an Adamant, it would breake thee. But there i; another that i yet more. Confider the dicho-. nour that God hath by the aff!i .',fions of his people : The truth is, The Lord fuffers in their fuffering, in all their afEtions he affi:Fled, the more. the Churches goe duwne, the more doe the wicked in uic and trium )h, the more do-h, wickedneffe prevaile : O this lhotad goe to thy heart, God goes down, ( as I may fay) and his cause goes down in . the Saints going down ; The glory of God is inwrapt in the good of the Saints, and he suffers in it. You will fay now, If God fuffers, why will he let the Saints be fo affli&ed. To that I anftiver : The Lord will let *hem be afflicted for the di covery of thofe who are true, and f elfe : and indeed he Both raife to himf Ife a glu sous name many way'.:s : But yet though the Lord doth raite to himfeife name of prxife by the fufferings of the Saints,yet we mufl:mou n and lamenr,becanfe in the meant,. time God -c'o=h :a ff:r, and they ren'l much ro his dishonour, although he by his in.:nite rower can fetch honour out of them. And 'be ides, if you confider onl -, this t The "eatneffe of the evills that is in thee dayes : If everithere were 'a rime ro mourn for the affli&ions of o hers, now is the time, and thole Y that
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