The soules ee uald callrnn to Chrift. and you lye as ftepping (tones for every bale wretch to treadon,you areperfecuted,and defpi- fed, and fcorned, but feare not, you (hall havea kin.gdome . the want ofthis is the caufe ofall that difconren,ment, that is in the hearts of Gods ownepeople, which are belovedofhim, and re- fpetted byhim. Take a poore man in mifery, his children crie formeat, and the mother faith, goe tobed poore babes, you (hall have meat, when the Lord fends it; brethren, this is hard I con- feffe, but now ifa friend fhould come and give him two hundred pounds a yeare for ever, this would make him goe away contented, becaufe this would provide for him and his : now I pro- pound apromife to thisman, theLord bath Paid, hewill never falle thee,nor forfake thee ; what is this worth ofyour money ? one man offers him two hundred pounds a yeare, and I offer hima promife, now could thou, thou poore miferable creature, bee content to take this two hundred pounds a yeare, and leave the promife, and bee content that the Lord fhauld not pardon, nor comfort, nor lave thee; I prefume thouwouldit not doe thus : nowwill a thoufand pounds con- tent thee, and will not the promife ? the rearm is,thouprifea the money becaufe it is temporal!, and thou feefi it, and thou prifeftnot the promife, becaufe it is fpiriruall,and thou feeft it not : take a man in contempt, and difgrace, and fcome, and noman looks after him ; if this man were regar- dedand honouredofmen, all were well, and the in were healed, and filly contented : now the Fff 2 Lord 407
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