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mot much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But feek ye first the Kingdom of God and his righteoufnels, and all these things fhall be added to you.

Heb. 13. 5. Let your converfations be without covetoufnefs, and be content with fuch things as ye have: for he hath faid, I will never fail thee nor forfake thee.

James 2.5. Hath not God chofen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom?

Pfal. 34. 10. They that feck the Lord fhall not want any good thing.

Pfal. 23. 1. The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want.
Pfal. 4. 19. My God fhall fupply all your need.

Phil. 4.11, 12, 13, I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abafed, and I know how to abound; every where, and in all things I am inftructed, both to be full, and to be hungry; both to abound, and to fuffer need.

Pfal 9. 18. The needy fhall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.

19. Promifes to the oppressed and wronged Chriftian.

Pfal. 12.5,6,7. For the oppreffion of the poor, and for the fighing of the needy, now will I arife, faith the Lord: I will fet him in fafety from him that puffeth at him---Thou fhalt keep them O Lord, thou shalt preferve them from this generation for ever.

Pfal. 35. 10. All my bones fhall fay, Lord, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea the poor and the needy from him that spoileth

him.

Pfal. 40.17. But I am poor and needy, yet the Lord think, eth on me; thou art my helper and deliverer.

Pfal. 42. 2, 4, 12, 13. He fhall judge thy people with righ teoufaeft; and thy poor with judgement--He fhall judge the poor of the people; he shall fave the children of the needy; and fhall break in pieces the oppreffor. For he fhall deliver the needy when he cryeth; the poor alfo, and him that hath no helper. He shall fpare the poor and needy, and shall fave the fouls of the needy: He thall redeem their fouls from

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deceit and violence, and precious fhall their blood be in his fight.

Pfal. 113.7. He raiseth up the poor out of the duft, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill. See Ifa. 25.3, 4, 5. & 14.30. Zach. 9. 8. Ifa. 51. 13.

Ecclef. 5. 8. If thou feeft the oppreffion of the poor, and violent perverting of judgement and juftice in a Province, mirvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highett, regardeth; and there be higher than they.

20. Promifes to the perfecuted who fuffer for righteousness.

Matth. 5. 19, 11, 12. Bleffed are they which are perfecuted for righteoufnels fake; for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. Bleffed are ye when men fhall revile you, and perfecute you, and fay all manner of evil against you falily, for my fake. Rejoyce and be exceeding glad; for great is your reward in Heaven: for fo perfecuted they the Prophets which were before

you.

Matth. 10. 28, 29, 30, 31 32. Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the foul---Are not two Sparrows fold for a farthing, and one of them fhall not fall on the ground without your Father: But the very hairs of your head are all numbered: Fear you not therefore; ye are of more value than many Sparrows. Whofoever shall confefs me before men, him will I confefs alfo before my Father which is in Hea ven--- v. 39. He that lefeth his life for my fake, shall find it..

Matth. 19. 29. And every one that hath forfaken houses,or brethren, or filters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my Names fake, fhall receive an hundred-fold, and fhall inherit everlasting life.

2 Thef. 1. 4, 5, 6. Your patience and faith in all your perieeations and tribulations which ye fuffer, is a manifeft token of the righteous judgement of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the Kingdom of God, for which ye also fuffer: feeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompence tribulation to them that trouble you; and to you who are troubled, reft with us--when Chrift thall come to be glorified in his Saints, and admired in all them that believe--

Aus 9.4. Saul, Saul, why perfecuteft thou me?
Read Rom. 8.28. to the end, & Rev. 2. & 3d. & Heb.11.& 12.

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1 Cor. 10. 13. There hath no temptation taken you, but fuch as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not fuffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

2 Tim. 2:9,10,11,12. I fuffer trouble as an evil doer unto bonds; but the Word of God is not bound; I endure all things for the Ele&s fake---It is a faithful faying: For if we be dead with him, we fhall alfo live with him: If we fuffer, we fhall alforeign with him.

Rom. 8. 17, 18. If so be that we suffer with him, that we may be alfo glorified together. For I reckon that the fufferings of this prefent time, are not worthy to be compared with the glory ready to be revealed on us.

2 Cor. 4. 17. For our light affliction which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding eternal weight of glory.

1 Pet. 3.14, 15. But if ye fuffer for righteoufnels fake,happyare ye and be not afraid of their terrour, neither be troubled. Read 1 Pet. 4. 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,18,19. Rom. 5. 1, 2,3,4.

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1 Pet. 5. 10. The God of all grace, who hath called us to his eternal glory by Chrift Jefus, after ye have fuffered a while, make you perfect, ftablish, strengthen, fettle you

21. Promifes to the faithful in dangers, daily and ordinary, or extraordinary:

Pfal. 34. 7. The Angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him; and delivereth them. v. 17. The righte ous cry, and the Lord heareth and delivereth them out of all their troubles. v. 19, 20, 22. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. He keepeth all his bones, not one of them is broken. The Lord redeemeth the foul of his fervants; and none of them that truft in him thall be defolate,

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Pfal. 91.1. He that dwelleth in the fecret place of the moft high, fhall abide under the tabernacle of the Almighty..v.2, 3. I will fay to the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress's my God, in him will I trust--- Surely he will deliver thee from the Thare of the fowler, and from the noisome Peftilence---fv. 5. Oo !: Thon

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Thou shalt not be afraid for the terrour by night--- v. 11,12. For he shall give his Angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy waies. They fhall bear thee up in their hands, left thou dash thy foot againfi a ftone, Read the whole--

Pfal. 121. 2, 3,4,5 6 7,8. My help cometh from the Lord, which made Heaven and Earth. He will not fuffer thy foot to be moved; he that keepeth thee will not flumber--- The Lord is thy keeper; the Lord is thy fhade upon thy right hand: The Lord fhall preferve thee from all evil; he fhail preferve thy foul. The Lod fhall preferve thy going out, and coming in, from this time forth, and even for ever more.

Pfal. 145. 20. The Lord preferveth all them that love him-

Pfal. 31. 23. & 97. 10. & 116. 6. Prov. 2. 8. 14.43. a. When thou paffeft thorow the waters I will be with thee -

1 Pet. 5. 7. Cafting all your care on him; for he careth for

you.

22. Promifes for help against Temptations, to believers.

1 Cor. 10. 13 before cited, 2 Pt. 2, 9. The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations.

Compare Matth. 4. where Christ was tempted even to worship the Devil, &e. with Heb, 4. 15. & 2. 18. For we have not an High Prictt which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted like as we are, without fin---Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful High Pricft, in things God-ward for us--For in that he himfelf hath fuffered b.ing tempted, he is able to fuccour them that are tempted.

James 1. 2. My Brethren, count it all ioy when ye fall into divers temptations (that is, by fufferings for Chritt.) v. 12. Bleffed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tryed, he fhall receive the Crown of life.

2 Cor. 12.9. My grace is fufficient for thee: My ftrength is made perfect in weakness.

Phil. 4 13. I can do all things through Chrift which Arengtheneth me.

1Pet. 5.9. Whom refist,ftedfaßt in the faith: with v. 10. James 4.7. Refift the Devil, and he will flee from you. Eph. 6:10, 11, &c.

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Rom. 6. 14. For fin fhall not have dominion over you; for ye are not under the Law, but under Grace.

John 16.33. Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. 1 John 5.4. This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

23. Promifesto them that overcome and persevere.

Rev. 2. 7. To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midft of the Paradife of God. V. 11. He that overcometh fhall not be hurt of the fecond death.

V. 17. To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden Manna, and will give him a white ftone, &c. V. 10. Be faithful unto death, and I will give thee a Crown of life.

V. 26, 28. He that overcometh and keepeth my words unto the end, to him will I give power over the Nations, and he fhall rule them with a Rod of Iron-Even as I received of my Father and I will give him the morning ftar.

Rev. 3. 5. He that overcometh, the fame fhall be clothed in white rayment, and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life; but I will confefs his name before my Father, and before his Angels. V. 12. Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the Temple of my God, and he fhall go no more out: And I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the City of my God, New Jerufalem, which cometh down out of Heaven from my God, and my new

name.

V21. To him that overcometh will I grant to fit down: with me on my Throne, even as I overcame, and am fet down with my Father on his Throne.

John 8 31. If ye continue in my word, then are ye my. Difciples indeed, and ye fhall know the truth, and the truth. fhall make you free.

Col. 122, 23. To prefent you holy and unblameable, and unreproveable in his fight; If ye continue in the faith,grounded and fettled, and be not moved away from the hope of the Golpel...

John 15 7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

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