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they were not to go to with ſome years atter they ſhould meet with from rhe delivering up to the Councils, and ſcourging in the Synagogues, ſeemerh co have a particular *eference to the Fews. This Scripcure was moſt eminently tultilled,as ro the Apoſtles, As 4. 1,243, tc. And as to being brought before Gover?curs
5. 27. and 6.12. Go mote in Eccle-
and Kings, faxſtical Stories. Neit any rcterence to t he only defigned to ler rhe heir Owning him, av ſhould be brought before all ſorts of Magiſtrates, of Courts. Thar Phraſe | And they will ſcourge you in eozues ] hach mightily perplexed fome , dreamed Religions Synagogues roo Holy Places bur there is no need that we ſhould take the term Synagogues here for the Places of their Worſhi their Conventions ; and there are fo adjoining to their Synagogres, fenders, upon che A 11. 24. that Paul W to their Law, Deut. 25. 3. [ Fr Gentiles.) A Tefti For my Names ſake, a Teſtimony againſt hence our terms O Witneſs, che other a Teſtimony.
19 *But when they deliveryou how or what ye ſhall ſpeak: for it
in that fame hour what ye ſhall ſpeak. 20 For it is not ye that ſpeak, but the ſpirit of
your Father which ſpeaketh in you.
the ſame, chap. 13.11. ſo hath Luke, chap.12. ſtles being Men bur of an ordinary Education he might reaſonably ſuppoſe, thar | they would not appear before Councils, and Kings, and Governours, withour Eme Abathment, having not been accuſtomed to ſuch He therefore arms them in theſe words; wherein he Man hath
Mark hatch much 11, 12. The Apo before Chriſt called them 3
Prelences :
doth u3r prohibit ordinary Thoughts , which every before he ſpeakerh, but anxious he, it ſhall be given you in tha Lord ſeemeth to ſpeak here, complaining he was of a ſſow $ hath made Man's mouth ? It ſh God. | For it # not you that ſpeak, which ſpeaketh in you «| The Holy Spirit ſhal and ſuggeſt that to you ;
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21 * And the brother {hall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child : and the children {hall riſe up againſt zherr parents, and cauſe them
to be put ro death. 22 And yeſha
ſaved.
Luke ſpeaketh much the ſame, rho? as ſpoken upon another occafion, Luk. 21. 16,17. Our Saviour here rells them, that the Perſecutions would reach even ro-Death ir ſelf ; and thar the Malice of the World againſt him and his Goſpel ſhould proceed ſo far, as to exringwſh all Nacural Affe&ton betwixt Brethren, and Parents, and Children ; and that they would meer with a Multicude of Enemies, ( for that 1s here meant by AZ, not every individual Man , as in a multitude of -other Scriptures.) The Root of all Perſecution is Hatred. Preaching or Profeſſing of my Goſpel, and living up to rhe Rule of ir, As 4.18. and 5. 41. This is that which Peter calleth ſuf- as a Chriſtian, 1 Pet. 4.16. And by this Phraſe, he dorh not only admoniſh them of their Duty, ro ſee that they ſuffered bur alſo encourage them from rhe Honourable ir was for his Names ſake. addeth anorher Argument, [ But he that endureth to the end, ſhall be There ſhall be an End of theſe Sufferings; if they end Life-rime, they will end with your Lives; and if ou ſhall be ſaved :
for his Names ſake, Cauſe of their Suffering ;
not in your you continue to the end, Patience,nor will it be profitable, if it holdeth not out to rhe end,
Mar. 13-13. 1 Cor. 9g. 24. Heb. 3. 6.
23 * But whenthey perſecute you in this city, flee ye into another : For verily I ſay unto you, Ye ſhall & 12. 75- not have || gone over the cities of Iſrael, unti] the Son of Man be come.
Whether this Text at all warranteth Miniſters flight in a time | Finiſhed, of Perſecution , I doubr; ic ſeemeth ro be a ſpecial Command given to the Apoftles , thar they mighc have a time betore the coming of Chriſt here ſpoken of , to Preach the Goſpel all over the Ciries of 1/rael. Bur that in ſome Caſes it is lawfulto fly, I do nor at all doubr,(tho' I do queſtion whether it bero be warranted from this Text,) whar thoſe Caſes are, is largely diſcourſed, par- ticularly by Mr. Torſhelf, Generally it is faid, Where-ever the
there are Inſtances enough inthe Ads, her do I think our Saviour hack in theſe words he diſtin&ion of their Camcils amongſt the m know, the time would come, d Preaching his Goſpel , they and in all kinds
a Place in which they pu Certain ir is, 2 Corinth. ws according them, and tbe
ccount of Religion. as five times ſcourged by the a Teſtimony again har is expreſſed in thoſe words,
mony for me, t s or Gentiles,
and againſt them, wherher Jew them in the Day of Judgment, eis pagſvercy * f Martyr and Martyrdom; the one ſignifies a
Thoughts afore hand UB faich t hour what ye ſhall ſpeak.) The as he did to Moſes, Exod. 4. 12. peech, and of a ſlow Tongue, v.11. Who all, faith Chriſt, be given you from but the Spirit of your Father from your ſelves only : | influence your Thoughts as to the Matter,