The life of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ : containing a full, accurate, and universal history from his taking upon himself our nature to his crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension: together with the lives, transactions, and sufferings of his holy evangelists, apostles, disciples, and other primitive martyrsTo which is added the history of the Jews . rm yourselves both with patience and fortitude,that ye m^ay be able to perform your duty, through the wholecourse of these persecutions ; for ye shall be brought beforethe great men of the earth, for my sake. But when theyshall lead you, and
The life of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ : containing a full, accurate, and universal history from his taking upon himself our nature to his crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension: together with the lives, transactions, and sufferings of his holy evangelists, apostles, disciples, and other primitive martyrsTo which is added the history of the Jews . rm yourselves both with patience and fortitude,that ye m^ay be able to perform your duty, through the wholecourse of these persecutions ; for ye shall be brought beforethe great men of the earth, for my sake. But when theyshall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought before-handwhat ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate ; but whatsoevershall be given unto you in that hour, that speak you : for it isnot ye that speak, Holy Ghost. Mark, xiii. 11. During this time of trouble and confusion, he told them theperfidy of mankind should be so great towards one another, that brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father theson ; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shallcause them to be put to death. The unbelieving-Jews, andapostate Christians, shall commit the most enormous and inhu-man Climes. It is, therefore, no wonder that the perfidy andwickedness of such pretended Christians, should discourage DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE FORETOLD. [Page 303.]. < ^^s for these things which ye behold, the days will come^ in the which there shallnot be left one stone itpon another,, that shall not be thrown rfou?n.—-Lukf, xxi. 6. LIFE OF CHRIST. S05 many disciples, and greatly hinder the propagation of the Gos-pel. But he wlio supports his faith, during these persecutions,and is not led astray by tl)c seduction of false Christians, shallescape that terrible destruction, which, likea deluge, will over-flow the land. And when Jerusalem shall be surrounded with armies, paganarmies, bearing in their standards the images of tlicir gods, the abomination of desolation, mentioned by the prophet
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