YYhat goodwill come by putting our felves &c, have; what is my fieth more then the flesh of others, charge this upon your iotYles as in the pretence of God and this will be a means to break your hearts. And tecondiy, Let all the mercies that you have, be feaf<- rìed Wi.h the confidera:ion of the thoughts of the ailli;;tion; cf your brethren, when you tit at your table, why I have a full Cable, but how is it with others ? --- Why, you goe to bed, I e to'bed, and have my hou e in peace, but how is it with o! hers of my brethren? when I walk out into the Rreets, I go about my trade and bufinefle, hut how is it with others ? 'When I come hAne again, I fee my wife and children and all about me ô but how is it frill with my brethren? fo upon every mercy that you do enjoy, you should as it were feafon the mer- cy with the confideration, How Rands it withmy brethren ? As you feafon your meat with fair, fo every mercy that you enjoy Mould have the conyderation of the ailliaion of your brethren, to joyned with it for the feafoning of that mercy. Certain- ly your mercies would be a great deale more favoury to you if they were feafened with the confideration of the afflictions that your brethren do endure. And then Further., Remember you are in the body, accor- ding to that Scripture in the 13. of the Hebrews you are lyable to thofe things that they are : and how juR were it with God if I thould not be affected with the miseries of others, that God fhould bring as great if not greater upon me. The Lord bath thoufands of wages to bring as great afilicdions upon you, as ever were brought upon any part of the kingdoms, and there is no fuch dangerous liigne that God intends it towards you, as the being unfenfible of the afflictions of your brethren: O how foon may the Lord by fecret treachery, by inaifacr,:s,t c. brim; you into as woful afflictions as they, and therefore confidering how lyable you are to the fame, or to much greater aflliaions, ô be fenfible of the miferies of your brethren, the ferious thoughts of them would be a mighty argument to worke upon the heart. I pee. 4. 173. And then Laflly , Confider that of the ArofIle Peter : ír t8.1 0 -ement begins at the houfe of God, what limit become of théns that
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