572 Some Head's from what bath been fail, befotted fool by thy lulls that.wilt fdrfake Chrill and his caufe for fear of perfecution, when as Chrill himfelfe faith, 7 hofe, arc bleffed that (offer, perfecution, Fourthly, Chrillians ilrould labour to eflablilh themfelve; iai this truth for the preparing of themfelves for perfecution,, look up to C hrill and fee- him pronouncing this bleflèdnefs Confider of the feverall particulars that have been fpoken, but efpecially the glory of the kingdome of Heaven, that will i rengthen thee againft perfecutron, for the very fight of that glory, if thou canll make it real to thy foul, it will put a mag- Ranimiry upon thy Spirit, it will raife thy fpirit above the world, it will make thee look upon all things as under thee, diipifing and contemning them; As it's faid of Chrill when he look't to the joy that was fet before him, he difp ifed the. shame, he lookt upon it as a contemptible thing : There's no- thing will make the heart of á man truly magnanimous; fo as the real fight of the glorious things in the kingdom of .leaven, . this will darken all the glory of the world in thine eyes ; If once thou hall had but a glimmering of the glory of the thing; in the Kingdom of Heaven, and lookt upon them as certaine and real, how eafie would it be for thee to futfer any thing in the world, that Scripture in the i o Heb. 3 a 3 3, 34 is re markable for this: But call to remembrance the former dales, in which after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of a f f iCtions, party whilefít ye were made a gazing- ftocIZe, bath by re- proaches and afflitiions,and partlywhile' ye became companions of them that were fo ufed,For ye had compafon of me in my bonds; and took joyfully the fpoyling of your goads, knowing in your(elves that ye have in Heaven a. better andan induring fubfl'ance :How came they to be llrengthned to take joyfully the fpoyding of their goods Mark the Text, knowing in your felves that ye have in Heaven a better and induring fubfiance : Obferve the phrafe; he doth not fay, that you have heard fay fo,but knowing tin your felve, there was a revelation of it by the Holy Ghofl unto their fouis to affine them of it,. to fettle their hearts in ir,. X no,vi r ¡n themfelves that they had in Heaven a better an in- dttr.'ng fu6fançe t I coufeffe afrer allthat I have preached to 3
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