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6. The Lord’s example
followed by the Saints.
Our Lord therefore, as I said before, thus
offered Himself for all; and the Saints having received this example
from their Saviour (for all of them before His coming, nay always, were
under His teaching), in their conflicts with their persecutors acted
lawfully in flying, and hiding themselves when they were sought after.
And being ignorant, as men, of the end of the time which Providence had
appointed unto them, they were unwilling at once to deliver themselves
up into the power of those who conspired against them. But knowing on
the other hand what is written, that ‘the portions’ of man
‘are in God’s hand1463
,’ and that
‘the Lord killeth1464
,’ and the
Lord ‘maketh alive,’ they the rather endured unto the end,
‘wandering about1465
,’ as the
Apostle has said, ‘in sheepskins, and goatskins, being destitute,
tormented, wandering in deserts,’ and hiding themselves ‘in
dens and caves of the earth;’ until either the appointed time of
death arrived, or God who had appointed their time spake unto them, and
stayed the designs of their enemies, or else delivered up the
persecuted to their persecutors,
according as it seemed to Him to be good. This we may well learn
respecting all men from David: for when Joab instigated him to slay
Saul, he said, ‘As the Lord liveth, the Lord shall smite him; or
his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and be
delivered to the enemies; the Lord forbid that I should stretch forth
my hand against the Lord’s anointed1466
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