The child's portion, or, The unseen glory of the children of God asserted and…

Tremble then at the thoughts of such a thing▪ that poor persecuted despised Saint, whom you seem to trample under the feet of pride, hath a Redeemer that is mighty, • Father in Heaven that will plead his cause. Make the Children of God your friends, and they will be ready to ⟨p. 37⟩speak a good word to their Father for you, and (however you may judge of them contemptuously, yet) there is a blessing in their prayers: But if you make them your enemies, woe to you, you had better bring all the world about your ears: The cries of Saints, when they are under the exercise of the envy and hatred of men, coming up into the ears of God and Christ, for the wrongs which are done unto them, are affecting cries and will stir up the holy jealousy of the great God, and he that is under the male diction of them (scorn he it as much as he will) it were good for that man if he had never been born.

Tremble then at the thoughts of such a thing▪ that poor persecuted despised Saint, whom you seem to trample under the feet of pride, hath a Redeemer that is mighty, • Father in Heaven that will plead his cause. Make the Children of God your friends, and they will be ready to ⟨p. 37⟩speak a good word to their Father for you, and (however you may judge of them contemptuously, yet) there is a blessing in their prayers: But if you make them your enemies, wo to you, you had better bring all the world about your ears: The cryes of Saints, when they are under the exercise of the envy and hatred of men, coming up into the ears of God and Christ, for the wrongs which are done unto them, are affecting cryes and will stirr up the holy jealousie of the great God, and he that is under the male diction of them (scorn he it as much as he wil) it were good for that man if he had never been born.