--------------------------~~~---------) ~~~ . Open _~oJnamySifler~&c. Sa~t.VI. ·in his owne perfon, fetting whole nights apart for_ prayer ; And then for what he fuffers in his MiriiO:ers ~ there he knocks, and faith, openin them. And howwashe ufed in theApoRle~h_at were after him , an~ in the Minifiers of tfie Church ever fince ? What have they endured~ for he put~ fpirit of patience upon them. And what indignities er.:1dured they in the Primitive i Church,that were the publi!hersof the Gofpel , thofefweet publHhers thereof, drawing men to open to Chrift, were killed for preaching. So cruc:ll is the heart, that it o.ffereth violence to them that love them moft,that love their foules– And what greater love, then the love of the foule ~ yet this is the Satanicall temper and dif– pofition of mens hearts, they h1te thofe men l moft, that dealethisway moft truly and loving– lywirh them.It is not that the Gofpell is fuch an 'hard mdfage. It is the word ofReconciliation, ·/and the word oflife ; but the heart hates it, he· , caufe it would draw men from their prefent I h condition,·and.therefore..cimdemnation is come i»· o ·3·'9· ' to the world)n that men hate the light, !Jecttufl their works drtcviU. Is there any thing truly and eo - dially hated bm Grace -: and are any perfons heartily and cordially hated in the world fo much ac; \ the Promulgers a~d Publithers of · Grace, ang the Profdfors of it, becaufe it up· /1 br~ds moft of all , and meddles with the cor- \. _ i r~pti ons of men, t .at are dearer to them then i theirowne foules . ) Now what p1dence is there ..in Chrifi to fuf- ! fer ~ --- ---------- ).
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