`t$ 'Difeiples of Chr.ß mtrfi'cxpeFt perfecsstion. pies of fletiìly wifdome, but they iball he' the principles o', k..,odlinefle, which they (hall receive frOin God, and that that I fhall aime'at it (hail be that I may live to the praife and ho- nour of God , I am refolved that thouh I have liv'd hereto- fore to my felfe, to provide for mine own;, eafe, árid all that time I liv'd quietly ; but now I am refolv'dn^t to live any fur ther to my felfe but to God ; All that will live Godly, And all that live Godly, if men or women content them - felves in bare withes ; Why we may have a good heart to God, what need I trouble my felfe and make fifth Qlews in the world fo long as I keep a good'heart toGod, there may -avoid perfecution, but if they will live Godly, that is, rrranife(t it in their lives and converfations, they muff futfer, And thenLaflly,All that wil.live Godly inChrrfl efrss:There is a kind ofprofe lion of Religion that men may have without any fuffering:thatis,for them to keep from gross & notorious fin; in the world may,but all that wil live Godly inChrif 3eft ,that is, all that wil live Godly in the 'ppwer of Chrift Jefus in the Spirit of Chrill Jefus, all that (hall manifeft the power and Spirit an life of Jefus Chrill in their carriages;all that will live Godly in Jefus Chrift:So that it feems there is a kind ofGodlinefs which the world takesfor Godiinefle that is not in Chrill Jefus,there is no manifeflarion of the power and life and efficacy of the S1-i.. rit?of ChrifI Jefus in it:But now thofe that wil live fo ,godly, they muff make_account to fuffer perfecution,& the more emi- nent andforward theyare,they muff make account to ftrtfer the more:Men that go on in a fair kind of way,as in former times, men that were (o difcreete in their way, as that they were thy of fuffering, and whatfoever came of it they would be fure to take heed of that ; and they did not love there zealous men, and fo theyavoyded perfecution : But now had their hearts been forward in the way of Godlinefíe, and their hearts zea- lous in the Spirit of Chrift, then they could not have avoyded perfecutron : Thofe that will live Godly in Chrill Jefus mutt fuffer perfecution, All of them. This leffon Paullearned even from Chrill himfelfe, though he liv'd not in Chrift time, yet it
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