SJ;R. 20 Triumph of Fait/1 -2-4; ' iovers ; but fee Mercy : 7et return to me,foitf? the Lord, 4· His black and fowre Crois 1s fweet, and honied with Comfort, his dead :Bodya :Bundte of .M.1wrhe, Cam, i. 1 3· '!'he Smdl of which is ftrong and f.ragrant1 and iweateth out precioll:s ~um, n:joicing inTribulation.s~ Ro1n_.v.3 .. Count tt Joy, ail JOy, when you tau tnto dtvers CJ'emptation$. Jam. i! z, T~e ~ag_les fmell _Heaven in the Crofs, and1Chnft m It) Gat, v1~ r 4~ Yea, the Refufe, and the worft of Chrijl's Crof,s, ' the Shame and the Reproaches of Chrift are fweeter and choicer to Mifes, th~n tht: Treafures, Riches, yea, ~han the ~ingdom of Egypt, a~ the Glory of 1t, 1I.eb, x1. ver. z.6, 2. 7. yea, the Shame and Blufhing on Chri.ft's fair Face, Heb~ ·xii. 2. whichhe ·fuffered und~r tht= Crofs, is fairer than Rubies and Gotd, and hath the Colour of the Heaven of Heavens. Nebuchadnezzar had more Paip and Torment in perfe~uting, ZJan. iv-~ 19. than the three Children had in being pedecured : There's Pain and Fury in 48ive Pedecution: He was jutt of _Fury, and the Form of his Vijage change/) ; but there is Joy unfpeaka-. ble, and _glorious iQ paffive Perfecution, Chrifi's, i~m~ified Crofs ~ropp,eth Honey,_ I :J!et. i. 6. 5t Chnfi~s q-Iowmings, and bd D(fertwns, though, to the Belrever, theY. be Death and Hell ; yet have much of Heav(:'n in them; So Pfat~ xxx. ' "- :{hou t(J:nedft away thJ1 Face~ and I Wa$ tro~""' hted [ Ntuhal ] I was trouhted like a witheretf Flower that looieth fap and Vigour~· So, Exod.,_ ~v. I 5 ~ The Vukes -~f Edom, ( Niuhalu ] werf! ~mazed ; yet at that Time Vavid prayed, cried~ and was heard, ver. 8, 9, 'o. The fweeteft Corn.. m\lnion that Chri,jt feeketh of·us on Eanh ~s. ?ray-:. (~ll.
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