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YE shall be Betrayed, both by Parents and Brethren, and Kinsfolk and Friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to Death.
And they shall lay Hands on you, and deliver you up into Prisons, and ye shall be brought before Kings and Rulers for my Names sake.
And it shall turn to you for a Te∣stimony.
But there shall not an Hair of your Head perish.
In your Patience possess ye your Souls,
And Meditate not before, what ye shall answer. But settle in your Hearts, that I will give you a Mouth and Wisdom. which all your Adversaries shall not be able to gain say, or resist, Luk. 21. 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19.
Precious in the Sight of the Lord, is the Death of his Saints, Ps. 116. 15.
What mean ye to weep, and to break mine Heart? For I am ready not to be bound only, but to die at Jerusalem, for the Name of the Lord Jesus, Act. 21. 13.
He that loveth his Life shall lose it; and he that hateth his Life in this World, shall keep it unto Life Eternal, Joh. 12. 25.
THE Lord heareth the poor, and despiseth not his Prisoners, Psal. 69. 33.
Deliver me from my Persecutors, for they are stronger than I. Bring my Soul out of Prison, that I may praise thy Name, Psal. 142. 6, 7.
Deliver me, O! Lord, from the evil man, preserve me from the Men of Violence.
Keep me, O! Lord, from the Hands of the Wicked, who have proposed to overthrow my Goings.
For the Proud have hid a Snare for me, and Cords; they have spread a Net by the way-side, they have set Gins for me.
They have sharpned their Tongues like a Serpent, Adders Poyson is under their Lips, Psal. 140. 1, 3, 4, 5.
In the work of the Gospel, I suffer trouble as an evil Doer, even unto Bonds; but the word of God is not bound, 2 Tim. 2. 9.
For many of the Brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my Bonds, are much more bold to speak the word with∣out Fear. Phil. 1. 14.
REmember my Bonds, Col. 4. 18. Remember those that are in Bonds, as bound with them, Heb. 13. 3.
Ye had compassion on me in my Bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your Goods, whilst ye became Companions of those, that were made a gazing-St••ck by Reproaches and Afflictions, Heb. 10. 33, 34.
I would have retained Onesimus with me, that in thy stead he might have ministred to me in the Bonds of the Gospel, Philem. 13.
Be not thou ashamed of the Testi∣mony of our Lord, nor of me his Pri∣soner; but be thou partaker of the Af∣flictions of the Gospel, according to the Power of God, 2 Tim. 1. 8.
Both in my Bonds, and in the Con∣firmation and Defence of the Gospel, ye are all Partakers of my Grace, Phil. 1. 7.
I was in Prison, and ye came unto me. In as much as ye have done it to one of the least of these my Brethren, ye have done it unto me, Mat. 25. 36, 40.
IF it had not been the Lord, who was on my side, when Men rose up against me.
Then they had swallowed me up quick, when their Wrath was kindled against me.
Then the proud Waters had gone over my Soul, Psal. 124. 2, 3, 5.
The Sorrows of Death compassed me, and the Floods of ungodly Men made me afraid, Psal. 18. 4.
They compassed me about like Bees, they thrust sore at me, that I might fall; but the Lord helped me, Psal. 118. 12, 13.
And I had the Sentence of Death in my self, that I should not trust in my self, but in God which raiseth the Dead, 2 Cor. 1. 9.
But blessed be the Lord, who hath not given me as a Prey unto their Death.
My Soul is escaped, as a Bird out of the Snare of the Fowler; the Snare is broken, and I have escaped, Ps. 124. 6 7.
He sent down his Hand from above, and delivered me out of the great Wa∣ters, from the Hands of strange Chil∣dren.
Whose Mouth speaketh Vanity, and their Right Hand is a Right Hand of Falshood, Ps. 144. 7, 8.
He delivered me from my strong Enemy, and from them which hated me; for they were too strong for me.
He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he de∣lighted in me, Psal. 18. 17, 19.
The Lord is my Strength, and my Song, and is become my Salvation.
The Lord is on my side; I will not fear what Man can do unto me.
I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord, Psal. 118. 6, 14, 17.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, World without end. Amen.
This Doxology may likewise be used at the end of the several pro∣ceeding Collections of Scriptures,
in this Office for Prisoners for Righte∣ousness, as also at the end of the se∣veral Collections of Scripture, in the former Office for those, who suf∣fer for Righteousness; when these Collections are read, not only for Instruction, but Devotionally, as Hymns to God.