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Reas. 1. God hath appointed you to it, you must take notice of it, God hath done it for many ends, How else should you shew forth your patience? how should you be kept off from bad company? God will lay bitter pills to the breasts of the world, that so you may be weaned from it, Psalm 119.115.
2. The world many times doth it out of ignorance: The world knows it not, therefore we may take it the better that we are ill dealt withall. A King takes it not ill to be badly dealt withall at strangers hands.
3. The world hated Christ, therefore no marvell if it hate us.
4. It is no new thing, it hath continued from Cain.
5 From the inclination of your own hearts, if you were in the worlds case, you would doe the like. Therefore marvell not, Tit. 3.2, 3.
Ʋse 1. Of instruction to such as live in places of Religion. If we be ha∣ted, wonder we not at it. We shall condemne the generation of Gods peo∣ple. The cause is partly from the tempter, partly from the wickednesse of the world.
Ʋse 2. Do not lay down Religion for fear of the worlds hatred. This is not the way, fear not the hatred of the world. Some Subjects will not feare the body of a State, so they may have the Kings favour. Much lesse should Gods servants fear though the whole body of a Countrey should fall foule up∣on them.
3. This should teach Gods servants to walk so much the more circum∣spectly, humbly, lovingly. If a man were to walk amongst his friends, he would care the lesse, but if he live among his enemies, he will looke to every step; so soon as you trip, you shall have mouthes enough open against you. Therefore Daniels course was notable, he so walked that they could not taxe him, Daniel 6.1, to 7.