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Revilers turfed.
Hold
not
thy peace, O
God
of
my
prai
fe. For
the
mouth
of
the
wicled,and
the
mouth
ofthe
cleceitfull
are
opened
againft
me,they
have
fpoken
againft
me, with
a
lying
tongue.
David
was a
type
of
the Church
and he filffered
exceeding much,
all kind of
fuffe-
ring and reviling
as
much
as
any,
their
mouths
was
opened,
what
then
in
the
3
verf.
They
compafed me
about
alfo
with
words
of
hatred,
andfought againft
me without
a
caufe.
Verf.
1äa1
;1tnri
What
then
?
What
do
I
doe,butlgive
my
felf
to
prayer,
e
Original is this, but I
pay,
that
is
my
refuge,
ayer
is my
help,
So
in
16 job
20.
My
friends
fears
one,
but
mine
eye
pow-
reth
out
tears
unto
God.
P
al.
57.
2. &
3.
verfes.
/will
cry
unto
God
maß
high,
unto God
that
performeth
all
things
for me.
He
fhall
fend
from Heaven, and
Pave me
from
t,
'.e
reproach
of
him
that
would fwallow me up,
Selah.
(3od ¡hall
fend
forth
his
mer-
cy
and his
truth,
and
other
like
expreffions
of
David, I
have
helpe
in
Heaven
and
therefore
I
need not revile
againe
and
be
difcouraged
in my way,
Nehemiah
was
reproached
when
he
was in
his work, and
did
he ceafe his work
?
no.
In
the
lift
place,
if
thole
be bleffed that are
reviled,
then
certainly thole that
are
revilers
are
curled, it
is
a
bleiled
d u
ng
when men being godly are
reviled forChrif
},
then
what
dolt
thou
think that
inflead of
fuffering for
reviling, that
arc
a
revi-
ler,
thofe
that were reviled,
and
being
weary
of ir,
are
turned
revilers,
oh
take
heed of
them, there
are
no
more
bitter
revi-
lers
of
Religion
in
the
world then
fuch
as
are apoflatizing pro
feffors
;
when you fee
any
man
that
bath been
a
forward
p
o-
fetlòr
and fallen
off, and
turned
out,
remember Rai
fhakeh's
Apottacy
that
was
the
worf}
reviler of all,
furely revilers
of
thofe
that
are godly
are
in
a
very curled condition, for
men
may pray againft
them, Nehem:
4.
3,
4,
&
S.
verfes. Now
Tobiah
the
ilmmonite,uas
by
him,
and/ac/id,
even
that
which
they
but
1,
if
a
foxgo
up, he
[hall
even
break
down
their
flone
wall..Hear,
O
our God, for
we
are
defpi
fed, and
turn their
re-
proach
upon
their
own
head,
and
give
them
for
a
prey
in
the
land
of
captivity.
Ord
cover
not
theiriniquity,
and let
not
their
fin
beblotted out
from
before
thee.,
for they
have
provoked
thee
to
an-
ger
before
the
builders. See
for ignorant ones
in
that
place of
the