- 6 4 .Defcription of the cottjirmed ... ture, ·and that wherein they mufl: do Vio~ lence t~ the fain~; ~hereh1 they muft l'ar~ ·with the ·Multitude, .and oppofe ·themfelves to the ftrongeft Tide of Ex· am.ple, .and muft . endure alfo in ·Hope, · ·andbelieve for Things not feen, (\vhich were never the 0bject of hutnan Senfe,) to any in this.-Earth·; and -are oft called to · 11art with the ·1noft defireable -Things of Senfe, · upon the \alone Credit of their Faith , ·yea, wherein they n1uft enter that Profeffion, on no other Terms, than -– to be Martyrs for the/fatne, , and feal it with their Blood ; fo-that he muft needs fee a Chriftian, accor~1ing to the Rule and Inftitution of the ·Gofpel, to be the greateft Riddle and Wonder-of aily Sight within Time ; but when fuch cotne more cldfe and\ '·nea~_, Ul10ll this Tnal; and hav-e - once underftood the Nature and Greatnefs of that Security, which thefe have to· ad– ·ventu(e on, and what is the Gioryof thei r Hope, and the fure ~pring of their Sup--' plies, for their Work and Trials wi'thin ,Time ·; then will this fecond Wondernn- · ~ fpeakably exceed the :firft; ho\v 'tis pof... 0 fible-, 'that fqch are not of a 1nore raifed and ·e.r11arged Spirit, in the Service of · the ·9ofnel, in that fhort ~eaf0n they have \ · _ - · here - .... •
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