Wesley Corpus

are only papists in disguise, who are undermining and destroying the church?“ 69. * You have heard this,” Well: and can you believe it ? Have you then never heard the 5th chapter of St. Matthew? I would to God you could believe this! what is written there? How readest thou ? Blessed are ye when men fhall revile you and persecute you, and fay all manner of evil against you falsely for my name's fake, * Rejoice and be exceeding glad ; for great is your reward in heaven; for so persecuted they the prophets that were before you namely, by reviling them, and saying all manner of evil of them falsely, Do not you know that this (as well as all other scriptures) must needs be fulfilled? If fo, take knowledes that this day also it is fulfilled in your ears. For our Lord's fake, and for the sake of his gospel which we preach, men do revile us and ßpersecute us, and (blessed be God who iveth us to rejoice therein) jay all manner of evil of us faljely. And how can it be otherwise ? The disciple is not above his master, It is enough for the disciple, that he be as his master, and the servant as his Lord, If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more fhall they call them of his household ?