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Hifiory. of
the ProphetsJuffering
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'Mud' hardfhip,
if
we
begin with Abraham
you know
what
he
fuffered, and afterward Ifaac what he fuffered,
and
Mofes
what reproach he
fuffered,
in
the
a a
of the
Hebrews, and
of
David
if
you
read the
35 Plain,:
and
the
t5
verf
But
in
mine
adverfity they rejoyced,
and
gathered
themfelves together :
yea,
the
eb
jeús (or
as
it
is in
the Hebrew,
The
fmiters)
gathered
of
themfelves
together, ágainft
me,
and
I
knew
it
not,
they
did
tear
]
me,
and
ceafed not
,
and
of the Church
,
in
the
-79
Pfaim
and
He
4
verf.
We
are
become
a
reproach
to
our neighbors
, a
(corn
and
derifiou
to
them
that
are
round about
ris.
You
may
read
of
job
-how
he was
called
by
the
bafeft
of
people. In
the i
6 chap.
9,
a
o.
verfes,
He
teareth
me in his
wrath,
who
hateth
me,
he
,gnofheth
upon
me
with
his
teeth,
mine
enemy
fharpeneth
his
eyes
upon
me.
They
have
gaped
uponme
with their
mmouth,
they
have
fin
tten'me
upon
the cheek
reproachfully
,
they
have gathered
themfelves togethe
againft
mc.
And Nehemiah
2
ch.
i
9.
verfe,
hut
when
Sanballat
the
Horonite, and
4;42
the
fervant
the
Ammonite, and
Gefhem
the
Arabia:
,
heard
it
,
they
laughed us
to'
fcorn, and
de
fpifed
its,
andPaid, what
is
this thing
that
you
do?.
will
ye
rebel
agatnft the
King?
A.nd
4
the Prophet Ifaiah 28.
ch.
i
3.
verfe.
But the
word
of
the
Lord
was unto them precept
upon
precept, precept
upon
precept,
l
neupon'line,
lineupon
line,
Berea
little
and there
a
little,
that
they
might
go
and
fall
back
ward,and
be
broken,
and
feared
,
and
take.
There
is
the
fcorn
that the Prophet fuffered even
in
regard of
his
Miniary
:
It
is faid
that he
was fawn
afunder,
and
for his
Miniftry
he
fuf,
fired
fcorn
;
the Hebrew
word
in
the
found of
them thews
a
kind of fcorn
that
they
did
ufe unto
the Prophets here
in
faeaking
to
them, they fcorned
him though he was
an
high
Prophet
;
you
may
read of Ezek
el acid
3eremiah
how
they
fuffered. The
fame
thing that
Chi-41
faid of
the
Prophets
in
all
ages,
maybe
faid
of the
Apo(lles and Martyrs and
chief
reformers
in
former times
,
ye fuffered
;
Thole that
have
been
moft
eminent
in work of
reformation
,
they
have
fuffer-
ed
fcorn,
contempt and
reviling.
Turtullian tells
of
the
Chriflians in
his
t'
le,
that they were called the
pablike
ene-
Tartuil;án
in
h
mies
to
the State
,
.
gat
they
met together
ix,
the night,
andAPo!
j.
blew
ti.