2c4 Loving Chri/l above all, SE x M, the meer force of plain reafon and perfua- IX. fion, therefore were they furnifhed with ex- traordinary powers to do Much miracles as might engage the rnoíf flupid to attend to their doctrine. Their mailer inílruds them how to conduct themfelves in the exercife of thofe powers, and in general to regulate their whole deportment with prudence and fimplicity, fo as they might give no offence, but with unblemifh'd charaeuers fuccefsfully purfue the great defign of their miffion. One article relating to this em- baffy was of the laft moment, and it is very largely infifled on. The apoftles were to fuller grievous perfecution, being fent out as fheep among wolves, men of favage and barbarous tempers, inflamed with a fuperfii- tious paffionate zeal, who would, without re- gard to their innocence, treat them with cruelty and rage. Their Lord endeavours to fortify their minds againft that event, arguing from a variety of topics for equanimity and patience under all their fufferings : Such as, that he had fubmitted himfelf to the fame Rate, and furely then they had no reafon to repine, nor to hope for an exemption from it. For "the " dJ iple is not above his majier, nor the " fervan4
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