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may, these shal suffer no great matter: beloved, saith the Apostle, think not strange concerning the fiery tryall, Pet. 4.12. Look over the whole book of God, both the Old and New Testament, and consider the lives of Gods people, and you shall find them usually in a poor afflicted condition. Noahs Ark upon the water, was a type of the condition of the Church in afflictions. What hard things did Abraham and the Patriarchs endure in their generations? How sore was the bondage of Israel in Egypt? The passage through the Red-sea, and the dismall wilderness of Canaan, that was a type of our afflicted condition in after ages. What hard usage did the Prophets of the Lord find? Elijah must flie for his life, while four hundred false prophets were at Jezebels Table: Isaiah was sawn assunder: Jeremy was stoned to death in Egypt: Ezekiel was slain in Babylon: Micah had his neck broken down a steep place: Amos had his brains knockt out. The persecutions of the Maccabees. The Apostle.