M ofes hitS elfe-deniA!l as .fari:e as hee dares. The heart is enrag J againft ~hofe from whom they · d,)~ futfe r 7 but thofe who have Faith . •' be their principle, they commit their · . c1nfe to God ; theugh men cNr{t they 6t1fe, they can heartily pray for their perf"curers, as Chrift and Stephen did t0r th~i .. s~ The Banner over a gracious . · hea1t, i ~ 1 all rhe troubles 'tbat befall it, is Love ; and therefor~, whatfoeverthe wrongs be that are o1Iered to fuch,there . , is ftill a Spirit ofLove prefervc:d in it. · Tenthly~ ifvAine-gl()ry be the prindp!e, bee 'loves to make his fufferiCigs knowne, and in the making of them ' know~ ~, he will aggravate them with all the circumfrances he can, to make them appeare the more grevious, that fo he in the fpifcring of them; may appeare rhe more glorious. It is a good . obfervation char Mafter Brightm4n bath upon tha~ expn ffion of Saint 1ohn, .fttV. I. 9· 1 WM in the 1/e thAt tJ caUed Parmo~~ he does not fay, I wva 6d11ijbed into the !le, by thewicktdcrwe!ty anJmAiice 1J[trJineenemies7 No, onelythus, Iw~ in the I le. The humble man rather de· · fi res that h_is fufferings might make P 3 (iod
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