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Seventhly,¹ if from vain-glory, then in such kind of sufferings that will be reproachful to him, and where there are none to honour him in them, there he fails; if God call him to some kind of sufferings, wherein he should be laid by, as a vile and contemptible thing, and nobody regarding of him, or taking notice of him, these sufferings would be very tedious to him; or if he lives in such a place where none will join with him, to encourage him, but every man scorns him in them, this will be hard to him; yea, so hard, that he cannot bear it.

Seventhly,¹ if from vaine-glory, then in such kinde of sufferings that will bee reproachfull to him, and where there are none to honour him in them, there he failes; if God call him to som kinde of sufferings, wherein he should be laid by, as a vile and contemptible thing, and nobody regarding of him, or taking notice of him, these sufferings would be very tedious to him; or if he lives in such a place where none will joyne with him, to encourage him, but every man scornes him in them, this will be hard to him; yea, so hard, that he cannot beare it.

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But Faith will carry through these, if it be the cause of God, it is enough to faith, it is able to rejoice in the midst of all reproaches, and all scorn and contempt, and filth, that the world ⟨p. 232⟩can cast upon it: if that which be done, be acceptable to god, a gracious heart thinks there is glory enough put upon it: That place, 1. Pet. 2. 20. is very observable: What glory is it, if when ye be buffeted for your fault ye take it patiently? but if when you do well, and suffer, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. Mark the opposition: If it had been direct, it would have been thus; What glory is it, if when ye are buffeted ye take it patiently, but if you do well, and suffer patiently, this is glorious, there is no glory in the other, but in this is glory, that is the meaning of the Apostle, but he does not say this is glory, but this is acceptable to God; and in that he says as much, for that is the greatest glory to a gracious heart, that any thing that he does or suffers may be acceptable to God, let it appear outwardly never so mean and base.