A companion for the persecuted, or, An office for those who suffer for righteousness containing particular prayers and devotions, for particular graces, and for their private or publick wants and occasions.

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Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being your selves also in the body, Heb. 13. 3.

Be not thou ashamed of the Te∣stimony of the Lord, nor of me his Prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the Gospel, accord∣ing to the power of God.

The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus, for he oft re∣freshed me, and was not ashamed of my Chain.

But when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found me, 2 Tim. 1. 8, 16, 17.

Ye endured a great fight of affli∣ctions, partly whilst ye were made a gazing-stock, both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly whilst ye became Companions of them that were so used.

For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, & took joyfully the spoyl∣ing of your goods, knowing in your selves, that ye have in Heaven a better, and an enduring substance, Heb. 10. 32, 33, 34.

Beloved, thou doest faithfully, whatsoever thou doest to the bre∣thren, and to strangers, which have born witness of thy Charity before the Church: whom, if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do well.

Because that for his Name sake they went forth.

We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellow-help∣ers to the truth, 3 Jo. 5, 6, 7, 8.

He that receiveth a Prophet in

the Name of a Prophet, shall receive a Prophets reward; and he that re∣ceiveth a Righteous Man, in the Name of a Righteous Man, shall re∣ceive a Righteous Mans reward.

And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones, a cup of cold water only in the Name of a Disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward, Mat. 10. 41, 42.

I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat; thirsty, and ye gave me no drink;

A stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye cloathed me not; sick and in prison, and ye visited me not.

In as much as ye did it not, un∣to the least of these, ye did it not to me, Mat. 25. 42, 43, 45.