Brethren, what are you for? are you for the present world or for that that to come? are you for your temporal enjoyments, or do you seek for Glory, Honour, and Immortality? If you are for this World, you have made a very imprudent choice, in taking up the Profession of Godliness and cleaving to and owning the hated ways of the Lord; But if you are for Glory, and for Eternity, then be of good cheer, all these things do make for us. You are witnesses how often I have told you of these things, and I can say with the Apostle, I believe therefore have I spoken, and therefore I am nothing moved with all these things, nor with the things that do yet further betide me. I believe, and therefore. I told you, that you should never be losers by Jesus Christ. Nay do I say I told it you, you know the Lord Jesus Christ hath showed you, that the persecuted are doubly blessed; that such should rejoice, and leap for joy, because great is their reward in Heaven Hath not God said, that if we suffer with him we shall also Reign with him; and that these light afflictions work for us a weight of Glory? And if this be ⟨p. 66⟩true, I pray you, tell me whether GOD hath not dealt well with us in counting us worthy of this little Tribulation for his Name? Indeed the Sufferings is but little; but verily the Reward will not be little. I know whom I have trusted: I am well assured the Glass is turned up, and every hour reckoned of our Imprisonment, and every Scorn and Reproach of our Enemies is kept in Black and White. I believe, therefore do I speak; GOD is infinitely tender of us, my Brethren, though a Poor and despicable Generation. I value not the Pot gun threats of a frowning world; 'tis well with us, we are GODS Favourites. Come my Beloved, let us sit down under his Shadow: Here is safety, and rest, if God be for us, who can be against us? Verily he Bottles all our Tears, and tells all our wanderings: He numbers all our hairs, whosoever toucheth us shall not be Innocent. Know you not that we are the Apple of his Eye? Hath not he reproved the greatest for his Peoples sakes, saying reproach not mine anointed? And so we forget how he loved us. Are not we his Jewels? Doth he not own us for his Members, for his Children?
Brethren, what are you for? are you for the present world or for that that to come? are you for your temporal enjoyments, or do you seek for Glory, Honour, and Immortality? If you are for this World, you have made a very imprudent choice, in taking up the Profession of Godliness and cleaving to and owning the hated ways of the Lord; But if you are for Glory, and for Eternity, then be of good chear, all these things do make for us. You are witnesses how often I have told you of these things, and I can say with the Apostle, I believe therefore have I spoken, and therefore I am nothing moved with all these things, nor with the things that do yet further betide me. I believe, and therefore. I told you, that you should never be losers by Jesus Christ. Nay do I say I told it you, you know the Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed you, that the persecuted are doubtly blessed; that such should rejoyce, and leap for joy, because great is their reward in Heaven Hath not God said, that if we suffer with him we shall also Reign with him; and that these light afflictions work for us a weight of Glory? And if this be ⟨p. 66⟩true, I pray you, tell me whether GOD hath not dealt well with us in counting us worthy of this little Tribulation for his Name? Indeed the Sufferings is but little; but verily the Reward will not be little. I know whom I have trusted: I am well assured the Glasse is turned up, and every hour reckoned of our Imprisonment, and every Scorn and Reproach of our Enemies is kept in Black and VVhite. I believe, therefore do I speak; GOD is infinitely tender of us, my Brethren, though a Poor and despicable Generation. I value not the Pot gun threats of a frowning world; 'tis well with us, we are GODS Favourites. Come my Beloved, let us sit down under his Shadow: Here is safety, and rest, if God be for us, who can be against us? Verily he Bottles all our Tears, and tells all our wandrings: He numbers all our hairs, whosoever toucheth us shall not be Innocent. Know you not that we are the Apple of his Eye? Hath not he reproved the greatest for his Peoples sakes, saying reproach not mine anointed? And so we forget how he loved us. Are not we his Jewells? Doth he not own us for his Members, for his Children?
