Chap, An Expofttion upon the Boob! of f o s. Vert, i, part, atad right fide, elfe youwill make a wrong, a crooked judg- ment of them, and deride thole whom youought to reverence. Fourthly, From the thing it felfe ofwhich lob complaints. Obferve, To be /cornedand deridedamangff men id a great afflitlion. Chrift numbers it with perfecution ( Matti,. 5. I r. ) BlefJed areye, when men ¡hall revile yóu,and perferuteyou, and flood fay all manner ofevillagainf$ you falflyfor my fake ; And among all fuf- ferings, this to fame is the fault, and the greoteft ; The Apuftle Net io guarodo exhorts the Saints ( Heb. 10. 32. ) Tocall to remembrance the ° "rib' pera recur áM47 i:ï former dayes, in which after they were illuminated, they - endured a totem rrerd:re great fight ofaffliEtions,.he calls it agrear faghr, the word is tran- rnaledrtla, corn flared a manifold fight ; now what was this grear fight of ai-Fíi ceri multi ad ons ? the next words anfwer, partly, whilfi you were made a ga- laqueani convo- z.ing fioclle, both by reproaches andaltttions ; (They are made probri uon op, e- a gazing ftocke, whom men derideand fcorn ( And, faith he, remea. Chry. do thisyou endured great, a manifoldfight ofoffluttion, as if they (of Horn. 15. had contended with many enemies ; yea, with many Armyes of ,n Math enemies, while they{ton*ly r ceived the charge of their deriders. can And to thew that derifìon or fcorn is a great aftliâion, the Pro- 'rua h-,(f bus phet foretold that a very great part of Chrifts fufferings, fhould urrgnnrúmeGa: be paidhim inderifionc. (Ifa. 53. 3.) He is,defpifed and rejpEted depudriat. ofmen, a man of Arrows, and acct:-ainted withgriefe (it was no (mall griefe and forrow tohim, to be defpifed) fo it was pro- phefied of him, and the biftory ofarias fufferings proves the fulfillingof it to the full. Fifdy 7,6 comp!pines much that l'e was derided ; what was lob ? he was a man that had formerly been in gre.:t honour and efteem,and now to be derided,went necr, and thick dole to.him. Hence note. When a man who loath been rn tech refpeEled, comes to be deri- ded, hù a ,1fien is double. Ifamearie man, who never knew what honour rneanec, be defpifed, it is fomevhat to him, but it touches a man to the quick that bathbeenhigh in honour,to fee and hear himfelfedifbonou- red,
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