5 'kJ/bit prrfectuion text there, rd ùy=,34 Pia'xe:e perfecute that which is goon. And in the t 2 Hob: 14. 'Follow fence; there's the ftme word ;. i Cor: 14. I. Follow after charity ; there's the -fine word there too ; It figni ies therefore fo to follow a thing, as not to leave-it till we have r oc_ren what we would have : So the Apo - file ufes it in the 3 PL: '14, I prep towards the mark; I per_ fecute the mark, as it were, that is, look with what eagernefe I did ever follow the Saints in the perlecurión of them, .l doe now with the fame eagerneffe prede towards the mark.A man that bath an eager fpi it dorh preflè towards a thing Now as it is applyed in an ill fence : Taking the meaning of ir, T s follow the thin; throughly. -- Nov if you would know what perfecution is, it is nothing but this pertinacious following of one to doe him hurt,tending to his dellruetion : when men doe,follow eagerly a bufineife that is evill, and follow a man or\woman in aching to doe hurt to them, and follow them eagerly, and refolve never to leave till they have got their wills of'them;they may be fail to perfecute thefe men ; For perfecution is not meerely to doe a man hurt ; There's a difference between wronging :a man, and perfecu- ting a man ; they may doe them wrong in fore one a6t, they may doe them wrong accidentally But now perfecution is,. when intending to follow a man or woman ita'a conflant way, and refolve never to leave them umill they have had their wills of them : O bleifed are they that are perfecuted, thatare for= lowed by the world, thole that the perfecutors of the world . are fet upon, and are eager to doe hurt unto. This is for Righ -- teoufneffe ; It is not the punithment,but the Caufe that makes. the Martyr ; Thofe are not bleffed that are followed hard for their fin, for their wickednefle, that fuffer for wickedneife,, that fufi;'er for evill doers,for God wòuld nor have them fúffer fo ; NO, that's a part of the Curfe of God upon them, that as they doe evill, fo they lhould fi:ffer ehill. Now the Saints that are bleffed, they labour to be fo farte from fu fit Jing for evill doing, that they would rather fuffer all the evill in the world, then doe the leafl:There,'s a great deale of difference between ibefe two. Bleffed
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