Chap.S. sccordiregtoStMA T T H s VV. 113, For theirs is the KingdomofHeaven] Surely, if there be any Way to heaven on horfcback, it is by the eraffe, Paid thatMartyr, 'BraIf, that was hafting thither in a fiery charet. TheTurksaccount all them, whom the Chriftians kill in battell, Mahomeaan Saints and Martyrs ; aflìgning them a veryhigh place in Paradife. In .fome Turk. Hzit, parts of the Weft- Indies there is an opinion ingrofle, that the foul la ì o a is immortali; znl that there is a life after this life, where, beyond certain hills ( theyknow not where) thole that died in defence of Arc', B. Abbot their countrey, fhould remain after death in much bleffedneflè; Gcosr p. 78. which opinion made them very valiant in their fights. Should not the aflurance ofHeaven make usvaliant fir the truth ? fhould we Jer,9 ;, not Pifer with joy the .íoilingof ourgoods? yea the lof eof our Hebr r, ;q. lives,for life eternall ? should we not look up to the recornpence ofreward, to Chrift the authour and finifher of our faith, who Rands over us ills the encounter, as once over Stephen, with a Ass . Crownon his head, and another in his hand, and faith, Vincenti Revs. Dabo, to him that overcommeth will I give this. Surely this ton of David will fhortly remove us from the afhes ofourforlorn Zigl'g, to the Hebron of our peace and glory : This fon of yefe i Srn,3a,- will give every one ofus, not fields and vineyards, but Crowns, Scepters, Kingdoms,glories, beauties, &c. The expedtation ofthis birthedday,this nightlefeday(as one calleth it) mu(t(as it did with dr .1.-tx p- )3. David, fouldiers all the timeof their banifhment) digelt all our k.% Naz, forrows, and snake us in themidi} ofmiferies for Chrift, to over- abound exceedingly with joy, as Paul did. Eliz.abe,hs go- tiZt4g1os5v- vernmenc was fo much the more happy and welcome, becaufe it rN Tyap /. erifued upon the ftormy times of CZMary. Shecame as a frefh s Cony. . fpring after a (harpe winter; and brought the (hip of England from a troublous and tempeftuous fea, toa fafe andquiet harbour. So will the Lord Chrift do for all his perfecuted people. Ye fee (fail Bible? the Martyr, and they werehis laft words,ioone that exhorted him tobe conftant, and take his deathpatiently) ye fee, faith he, when themariner is entred his (hip to fail on the troublous lea, how he, for a while, is tofEd in the billows of the fame : but yet in hope that he (hall once come to thequiet haven, hebeareth in better comfort the troubles that he feeleth. So am I now to- wards this fayling : and whatfoever ftorms I ,!hall feel, yet (hortly after (hall my (hip be in the haven, as Idoubt not thereof by the grace of 9od,c'c. Lo,this was that, that held the good mans head ,g(g, and aMoï, above water, the hope of Heaven. And fo it did many others, Io! 9i3, I whom
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