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[Is
cassie.
built
at
ierufalem, they thought
furely'now our
Temple at Sa-
maria
wall
be difgrac'd
;
Every body would be ready
to
goe-
from them
to the Temple
at
jerufatem; When
indeed
the
Temple
of
J
erufalem was
down,
then
theaemple
of
Samaria:;
they
thought might
he
honoured,
but if
the Temple
at Jerufa_
lem
were built,
the Temple at Samaria
would be accounted
nothing, therefore
they
raife all the accufations
thatpofbly,
they
can
againfi
Nehemiah,that
fo
the honout and the
credit
of
their
Temple
might
not
goe
downe
:
This
is
for
all the world
the
guile
and
way
of
men that
are in.
any way
of wickedneüè
that
is
not
according to
God
ÿ
Ifanv
(hall come
to
fet
up
way
that
hath
any
kind
of
feemi;
gne1fe
of more
(irianefle
in
it,
O
then
their
hearts are
imbittered,
and
then they feek by
calumnies
and
reproaches,
and all
the
wayes
they can,
to beat
down
the efleem of
thofe men
;
For
fay
they, if
thofe
go;.
up
then
ours goes down
;
and
thofe that
are
godly
will
goe
to
the
Temple
that
is
built
there,
for
it
doth
feem
to
have
the more
appearance out of Scripture
to
be the
better,
and therefore
it's
time
for
them to be flirring.This
is
the
reafon of
the
reproaches.
that wete
cafi upon
Nehemiah
by
Sanballat
and
Yobia,
ever
fuch
as
are
moll
forward
in wayes
of
reformation,
muff expect,
reviling,
we
read
in
the
third of
Zech:
a.
3,
He
fhewed
me.
7ofua
the
high
prieflanding
before
the
e
Ángel
of
the Lord,
&
Satan
f
audrng
at
his
right
hand
ta.reff
him,
&c.
Now fofhua
was cloathed
with
filthy garments, and
food
before
the Angell.
Mark,
fofhua
here,
was
the great infiniment of
good in
the
work
of
reformation now
Satan
(lands
at
his.
right
hand
to
hinder
him
in
his
work,
by which means
he
doth
feem
to
call_
filth
upon fofhua
;
Jofhwa Elands
cloathed
wiih filthy
garments,
with reproachings, & revilings,and this
was
the
way
that
Satan
thoughcto hinder
:
And
thofe
that
are forward
in
the
werke
of
reformation
Satan
Peeks
to hinder
by
reproachings
and
re-
vilings
;
And he
feekes
to
do
ir,
becaufe
that indeed there
is
nothing more grievous
to
an
ingeneous
fpirit
thzn reviling and
reproaching
,
Ir
was
very grievous
to Chrifi,
Chrifi cryed
out
when they
nodded
the head at him
:
And
we
never read
of
the
Saints
making
their
moans &
complaints
to God
in
a
more
lamen-