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Ï17fiory
of the
Prophets faifferings,
evil
of
them.
--Now
let
us
take
notice of this evil world
when even the Minifters of
God that
are the
greaten
bletfing
in
the world
,
in
that
they come in the
-name
of
Chrift to
open the treafure
and riches
of
the
grace
of Cod
in
that
blef
fed Covenant ,
and
fhould
be
accepted
as
Angels
of
the
Dei-
ty
in
reipec&
of their
menage,
yet
this wicked world
,
their
hearts are
again{}
no
people
fo much
as
againtt
them.
It
fhould
be
a
rule
to
Mintíters
to
walk ci:
cumtpectly that there
be
no
matter
found
in
them
of objettioti
againit
them.
Lay,
Labor
to
uphold
that true
honor
that Chritl
bath
fent
you
to do
in
the
Miniflery
of
the
Cofpe(;
you kn
w
how
careful
and
tender
Jefus Chrift
is
of
the
Honor
and
e-
fteem of
his
Minifters
,
therefore that
you muft
not receive
an accufation
againft
an
Elder without
two
or
three
wt
.neifès;
you muff
be
to
far from
thinking
it to
be
true,
not
fo
much as
telling it
up and
down,unlefs
you
have
two
or
three
wirneffes,
and
fo
all
that are
godly should fet themielves
what po.fibly
they
can
CO
uphold
the
honor
of
faithful
Minifters, to
have
a
tender
care
and
efteem
of
their
credit,
and beat
down
a_
ll
things
that
may
prejudice them.
Fcr
foperfecuted
they
the
Prophets.
It
is no
fttange thing
that
you
meet
withal , neither
is
it
a
-new
thing
that
you
meet
withal
;
you
meet
wit
h
perfecurion
and
reviling
,
why
account
it
no firange
thing,
as
Peer
fpeaks
about
the
fiery
tryal.
Here
confider
three
particulars.
Firft, the
hiflory how
all the
Prophets,
from
time to time
have
met
with perfecuti-
on,
efpecially the Minifters
of
God,
he doth
not
fay fo
did
they to
the
Saints
, but
to
the Prophets.
The
fecond thing fhould
have
been
ro
thew
you
wherein
lyes
the
power
of
the
argument,
flat
you fhc
ild re
óyce
and
beglad,
becaufe
the
Pro
hers
were
fo
perfecuted,
And Thirdly,
what
t
fe
it
is
that
we
fhould
make, in
that
theProphets
fuffred
fo
much.
Fitfl,
How
the Prophets
from
time to time
did
fuffer
fo
much