270 ( ______ O __ F__ M_- _A_N_-_s_____ I haue him though alone, they care for nothing· · elfe: thus they are affecteq. When God puts them toit, as you fe·e, Naomi put R~tth21nd her other daughter toit; .faith iliee, Wilt thou go · with me*! I h~uenothing fonhee~ Gods hand is – goneout againfime,rhaue no .more fonnes in my wombe; or, ifI had, . thou ·wouldefi: never fray till they were of age: ·When they ·were put to itthus) one daughter forfookc her, name. ly, orphah; and returned backe to her people; But Rttth' gaue her this anfwer; Be it fo, yet whither thou goefr, r will go, l will dweH I where thou ·dwelleft, I" wilJ never forfakcthec: . So it is'· with the Sainrs,.they-·choofe theLord, I though alone, they cleaue to him .alone, they reckonit reward enongh,ifthey may haue him, as youfeeAtrah.amdid,as .God[aid to-him, I my fe Ife1vi!l bethy exceeding-great reward;·hewould notfo muchastake any thing from the King of Sodome; Why1 Be-caufe,{aithhe, it iliall never · be (aid that h~ hath made <..A6rahamri:-ch: God · alone··fhall m1keme rich, he is reward enough, he is w/1-fofficient,I wiJI not take any ofthefc things in with him: Ail the Saints are thus minded; they are contented with G@d alone, _becaufe they Iooke on him ·as an Afl-(ufficietJt reward., they haue ago0d opinion ofhim, and · thereforetheyforfake him -noti_whereas others ·hauebin in •admiration of him_, but for advan– tage, when they haue gotten what they would haue, and are delivered from what they feare, Horea 7,io.· . theyftitrt ajide 1 like a .brokenBflw:, Hofla7; the . , place: ~----~-------------------------------~
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