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David by this manner of speaking right well declareth, that the Children of God shall always be assailed with many and sundry assaults, persecutions & griefs, so long as they live here in this world, and the meaning of God is to appoint him to be as it were a Glass for all the faithful to look in. For as we see how he hath been entreated, and do also see his condition and state, no doubt God hath set him as it were upon a scaffold, to the end we might be conformed according to his example: as he was also in very deed, a figure of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now we know that our Lord Jesus was a true patron of all the Children of god, according unto whose image we must be made like, namely in this point, to wit, in afflictions, in anguishes, and miseries, as Saint Paul thereof witnesseth to the Romans. Since then it is so, let us know that so long as we are to live in this world, we shall be always afflicted and troubled by wicked and ungodly men,¹ neither ought we too think it any strange thing, since that David hath showed us the way: and that God hath purposed too have us framed after his example, let not the afflictions and persecutions, which we must abide at this day, seem new and strange unto us.

Dauid by this manner of speaking right well declareth, that the Children of God shall alwayes bee assayled with many and sundry assaultes, persecutions & griefes, so long as they liue heere in this worlde, and the meaning of God is to appoint him to be as it were a Glasse for all the faythfull to looke in. For as we see how he hath beene intreated, and do also see his condition and state, no doubt God hath set him as it were vpon a scaffolde, to the ende we might be conformed according to his example: as he was also in very deede, a figure of our Lord Iesus Christ. Now we knowe that our Lorde Iesus was a true patron of all the Children of god, according vnto whose image we must be made like, namely in this poynt, to wit, in afflictions, in anguishes, and miseryes, as Saint Paule therof witnesseth to the Romanes. Since then it is so, let vs know that so long as we are to liue in this world, we shall be alwayes afflicted and troubled by wicked and vngodly men,¹ neither ought wee too thinke it any strange thing, since that Dauid hath shewed vs the way: and that God hath purposed too haue vs framed after his example, let not the afflictions and persecutions, which wee must abide at this day, seeme newe and strange vnto vs.