p The ſame Goſpel-Faith in1bled others, than thoſe mentioned before, Prophets and Saints, as Micarah, 1 King. 22. 24, Fliſh\, 2 King. 2.23. Jja.8. 18. Amos ch. 7. 10. readily, chearfully, ad patiently to accept and receive the Experience and Trials of m./ ing, from the intulting, cruel enemies of Ged and his Church, tb! national and Aliens, beinz expoſed and made 2 Lau ching-ſto k Reproaches, Sarcaſins, and Nick-names, to aggra vate their; Afr; ons, and theſe inflicted on them by Words and external Signs, } als, which to an inzgenucus Spirit bears harder than external 7 ments, and which tney more deeply ſenſe ang reſc ent; yet Eris mANgh them to receive all hum) 1y, and carrieth them above them,
; Pſ. 31. 20. and '52. 1, to 5. and 120.. 3, 4. atd 14c. 3. p | They felt the Scourges and Whips yf their Enzmies Smart on tlic ſuch as were exceſſively ſhametul and painful, being inflitted on t vilcſt Perſons, as Sſaves; ſuch as was the matter ' of theſe Soour- ges, ſuch their ſmartinss, whether of Thongs, Cords, or Wirc:, Fer. 20. 2. atid 37, 15. This Torment was comment, ind:G&d on them, not in Antiochus's time only, and thoſe before, but con: monly in Chriſt's and the Apoſtles days, 2 Cor. 6. 8. and 11.
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D By the ſame Faith WCre ſeveral of the Prophets and belicyins Worthies of Old carried through cruel! Deaths. the juſt Puniſhment of MalefaQtors, but the wicked Tortures of theſe innocent Saints, ſome being {toned to Dcath, as Zacharias the Son of Jehoiada,
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13. 34. ft As Taiah was, is a known Tradition among the Hebrews, 4 Puniſhment common among the bordering Nations on th __ 2 Sum. 12. ZI. Amos I. 3. and exerciſed on theſe Innocents, which Chriſt himſelf alludeth, Afatth. 24. 51. u W ww Has traex gyms ſhould not be "TOA RE is much doubted, Temptat 01 being no manner of Death; and the Spirit had inſtanced in it be- fore, v. 35. It may therefore be a flip of the Tranſcriber, and that Burning was the cruel Death that ſhould fill this Place Among tne reſt, a common puniſhment with them, Jer. 29. . Mace cab, 7. 5. Or, it may note a Death with ſeveral Trials of *CKs and Torments gradually intlited, with a Defton to tempt th. m BY their Pains, to renounce their Reli- ion w Others were ki!
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pained without, and affliaed beyond what can be ſenſed- by any, but 1n the like States, and evilly intreated by all ; many Miſeries atten- ding them by their Purtuers, hardſhip 1n Travels, and all forts of Evils, which multiplied their Griefs : Through all this Faith carried them comfortably, and kept God with them.
35 Ot whom Zz the world was not worthy they wandred in a deſerts, and z2 mountains, and zx dens and caves of the earth.
2 The Spirit intermixeth an Account of what theſe Perſons were, who were 10 treated,leſt the Reader or Hearer of theſe things might be miſtaken of them, judging them to be ſome heinous Malefa&ors, who were thus hurricd in, and deſtroyed by the World. Would you know what manner of Perſons they were; he .it known to you 1n the Judgment of God, the beſt Judge of their Perſons and States ; they were ſuch as the World did not deſerve they ſhould live among them, but were unworthy of their Socicty, and the Bleffings which did attend it; and were it not for their ſakes, God would quickly put an end to the finrul World, and burn it up. Such were theſe as did more for the Preſervation of the World, when thus brutiſhly treated by it, than it would or could do for it ſelf, a Yet were they wandring over the deſolate parts of this Earth, being forced from all Society with Men, to the retirements ot wild Beaſts in De- ſerts, and climbing up Mountains and Rocks from their Perſecutors, lodging themſelves in the natural or artificial Dens and Caves of the Earth, the only Receptacles for theſe Worthies, Faith giving them 1e bett company, God and his comforts there z; ſee 1 Sam. 22. 23, 24. 1 Kings 17. 3. and 18.13. 1 Macab. 1. 53. and 2. 28, 29, 30.
39 And 6 theſe all having obtained - a gool re- port through faith, received not the promile 4.