your Ey Matthew ouſneſs. neither are they truly ſecketh after, and Studyctn Rightcouſncls. | Bleſſed are ye when Men ſhall hate you, their Company, and fha!l Reproach Evil, jor the Son of Mans jake. | which are Pe of Heaven, and fhaitjay all manner of Evil azainst you, falſly for my ſa' true the are proncunced Blefled, but the Words are very different, and here are forue Species of Perſecution mentioned, that Matthew meilti0n- eth not pirticularly. I. their Names as Euil. Le underitood of Impriſmmment, . thoſe Circumſtances are ſeparated from the Company of th-1r rclatt- ons and Country-men, but it may alſo be underſtood of Eccle/rajtical Cenſures, and thus it agreeth both with our 15. 2. They ſhall put you out of the Synagngues, and with 7ohn. g. 22. where we read of a Decree they made, that if any aid confeſs that Fejus was the Chrift, he ſhould be put out of the Synazozue. Therc rc time of Ezra, when their Governour w75 oPt a Seabſtitute under a Pazan Prince, who did not give their Conguered Subj-&s a Power to put ary to Death, but left them fo Excrciſe any lighter Puniſh- mente, that think ſo. For as it is not reaſonable, that God left the Church ofthe Jews, without thar Power that Nature Clotheth evcry Socic-
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and when they ſhall ſeparate you from zou, and caſt out your Name, 45 Matthew ſaith, Bleſſed are they, rſecuted for Righteouſneſs ſake,” for theing us the "Kingdom Ble(jed are 1e when men ſhall -Revile you, and » oct you, 2 \ 15
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